LASHKAR e TOIBA IS AS DANGEROUS AS AL QAEDA

LASHKAR e TOIBA IS AS DANGEROUS AS AL QAEDA


Prof Dr Colonel K Prabhakar Rao ( Retired)


Lashkar E Toiba a terrorist outfit is housed in Pakistan and is a major nuisance to the world. Lashkar-e-Taiba means Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure — also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, or LeT is one of the largest and most active terrorist organizations in South Asia. It was founded by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Zafar Iqbal in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, and is currently based near Lahore, Pakistan operating several training camps in Pakistan-administered Kashmir near Muzaffarabad. Lashkar-e-Taiba members have carried out major attacks against India and its objective is to introduce an Islamic state in South Asia and to "liberate" Muslims residing in Indian administered Kashmir. Some breakaway Lashkar members have also been accused of carrying nefarious attacks in the sub continent (1) With its nefarious activities and agenda it falls into the most dangerous outfits such as Taliban and Al Qaeda that are posing grave danger to world peace and stability and thus are to be eliminated from the face of the earth.
Infact Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence created Lashkar-e-Tayiba and has definite links with the terror group which has been involved in attacks in Mumbai
'The ISI created Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which is no more under its control. These jihadis were there in Jammu and Kashmir supported by Pakistan as per reports.The monster was created by ISI and let loose on India and now are unable to control them. The ISI had links with jihadi groups throughout the 1980s when the CIA used it to support the Mujahideen against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan and when it saw an opportunity in 1989 to weaken India by creating trouble in Jammu and Kashmir, the outfit's terrorists were infiltrated into India . Thus Pakistan is the main culprit in the emergence of LeT in the sub continent (2). The ISI, reportedly, officially severed links with LeT in 2002 after the group attacked Indian Parliament, but Indian and US intelligence believe that it maintained covert support, probably through ex-ISI officers.
The main manifesto of LET is Islamic Jihad. Jihad means struggle not necessarily armed struggle. It is the struggle of a person to overcome bad qualities and purify one self. However the word has been misused and thugs and fundamentalists have hijacked Islamic teachings to meet their nefarious ends. The ignorant and poor Muslims have fallen a prey to the twisted versions of Islam. The Purpose of Jihad as per its founder Hafeez Muhammed Saeed is (3):

1.To conduct a continuous and sustained struggle and establish Islam as the dominant religion in whole world

2.Eliminate evil forces and Kafirs ( Non Muslims) from world

3.Its main enemies are Israel, India and United States of America.

4.Suicide attacks are the chief methods in jihad for elimination of enemy and spread of terror

5.LET does not subscribe to democracy or national spirit. As per its belief, Muslims can not be governed by Kafirs. It has to be always otherwise

6. Every Muslim has to defend interests of Islam any where in the world.

7.Jihad is essential in all societies where Muslims form part of a democratic system with non Muslims. .

8.Wahabi Philosophy is the main guiding and motivation factor for LET

9. It believes that Allah has made world and therefore only Islam should rule and exist.
All others have to be converted or put to sword.

Thus the purpose of Jihad as per the founder of LeT is based on hatred and self assumed superiority of Islam over other religions. This is the main point in the manifestos of all types of terrorist outfits such as Jaish e Mohammed, SIMI, HUJI, Al Qaida that are Wahabi based outfits. Sunni Wahabi philosophy strives on superiority of Islam and on the thought of a world of Muslims . They have failed to see the message of God in right spirit and with blackened minds are perpetuating the most heinous crimes all over the world. Thus there is a necessity to counter and eliminate this evil thought and outfit by all right thinking societies including the peace loving Muslims from Islam who do not subscribe to these nefarious and perverted thoughts. The peace loving countries must leave no stone unturned to eliminate these outfits by all means.

LET is widely dispersed in Pakistan with nearly 2200 offices, training centers, and has offices and centers in all most al places in Pakistan. These are at:

Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK),.Lahore,. Muzaffarabad in POK,. Peshawar,.Islamabad,. Rawalpindi,. Karachi,. Gujranwalah,.Multan, Sialkot,. Gilgit ( POK),. Quetta.

LET is maintaining links with many terror outfits of J and K such as
Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI), Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM),J & K Liberation Front (JKLF), Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM), Al Badr, Muttahida Jehad Council (MJC), Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM),
Lashkar -e-Jabbar (LeJ), Al Umar Mujahideen (AUM), Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TUM)

LeT also maintains links with all Islamic terrorist outfits in the world throughout the Globe including Al Qaida and Taliban and has emerged as the notorious and widely spread organization. It has even links with Iraqi militants that are fighting the American forces. . In March last year - and possibly even earlier - United States forces detained Pakistani national Dilshad Ahmad and four others in Baghdad. Ahmad, a long-time Lashkar operative from the Bahawalpur area of the province of Punjab in Pakistan, had played a key role in the Lashkar's trans-Line of Control (LoC) operations, serving between 1997 and 2001 as the organisation's commander for the forward camps from where infiltrating groups of terrorists are launched into Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistani military support. Ahmad is believed to have made at least six secret visits to Lashkar groups operating in J&K during this period.
LET has carried out many attacks in India and some of these are :
1. Attack on Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in Karnataka State on December 28, 2005 killing one scientist
2 .Serial explosions in New Delhi on October, 29, 2005 killing 62 persons.
3.. Attack on Varanasi 0n March 7, 2006 where 21 civilians were killed.
4. Attack to storm RSS (Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh) Head Quarters in Nagpur in Maharashtra State on June 1 , 2006 in which three militants were slain
5. Train bombings on 7/11 in Bombay in which 200 people died and Let is blamed by the police in Maharashtra state.
6. LeT denies reports of its involvement in the December 13-attack on the Indian Parliament in which 12 persons, including six terrorists, were killed. Delhi police officials suspect that the LeT provided logistical assistance to the JeM in carrying out the attack on Parliament
7.On Dec 27, 1999 it attacked J and K police special Forces Group Head Quarters at Srinagar and 12 SF personnel and few militants died.
8.On December 2000 it attacked army garrison in Red fort at Delhi and killed security personnel
9. On Nov 3, 1999 it attacked local Army Head Quarters at Badami Bagh in Ja nd K and 8 persons died in the attack.
10. Bombay terror attack on 26 Nov 2008, in which about 170 were killed
. Apart from above there have been many attacks on civilians and security forces in J and K state in which thousands have been killed. The strategy of Let has been to massacre civilian Hindu groups in terrorist attacks there buy causing fear, instability in the state and dejection.

India is endangered by the militant outfits that have sprung up in Jand K state and in other places. These outfits are co ordinatinating activities with other local terror outfits in different States to cause instability in the country. Outfits such as SIMI, Deendar Anjuman, Controversial outfit National Democratic Front ( NDF ) in Kerala,Ul Umma in Tamil nadu, Dargah e Shahdat ( Hyderabad based) and some more (4). LeT has been master minding the terror acts and the recent Bombay terror act has proved to be a very well co coordinated and executed act causing immense harm to India (5) (6). India was badly caught off guard and 170 lives were lost including foreigners there by lowering the prestige of India in international scene. Jamait Ud dawaa the front line Organization of LeT based in Pakistan although has been banned by UN as a terorist outfit it is unlikely that this would make some difference to the present situation. LeT is very much there in Pakistan enjoying Government and ISI patronage. LeT is fully entrenched in Pakistan and Pakistan finds it great advantage to destabilize Kashmir from time to time (7). Pakistan has proved to be a failed State and all fingers of accusation are pointing to Pakistan. Al Qaeda and Taliban are finding safe haven in Pakistan and this country has taken Americans for a wild goose chase after swindling billions of US dollars as aid for fighting terrorists on its soil. It can be expected that Al Qaeda, Taliban and LeT would form a nexus in fighting towards a Islamic Caliphate that disappeared after World War I. These nefarious designs are required to be fought with great courage and determination by all sane countries. India is expecting that Pakistan would dismantle terror outfits on its soil and hoping on International pressure, But it is unlikely to make an impact. Pakistan has already been Talibanised and Probably Pak Army and ISI has run into embrace with Taliban who subscribe to Wahhabi cult (8).The name sake democracy can not survive without blessings of Army or ISI and such democratic governments would be in place for a short while. LeT would prove more dangerous to India as they deeply infiltrated into India and are waging struggle in the form of terrorist activities in different parts of the country. SIMI ( Student Islamic Movement of India) has similar agenda as LeT and is equally dangerous. Therefore India has to very firmly deal with LeT and the present policy of appeasement of minorities and expecting some one to fight Indias battle would spell doom to the country.
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Dr K Prabhakar Rao