As the governments of India and Pakistan work towards normalizing ties between the two countries, anti-humanity groups (JuD) start with their rants in hopes of destabilizing future talks.
Hafiz Saeed questions India on 26/11, says no concrete proof in 26/11 attacks even after 7 years
Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief and 26/11 plotter Hafiz Saeed has dared India over the Mumbai attacks probe days after Sushma Swaraj‘s visit to Islamabad.
This rant comes after a joint declaration where India and Pakistan agreed to a composite dialogue as well as to expedite the trial of 26/11; In a speech, the JuD chief Saeed says, “Our government remained silent, but let me respond to Sushma. It’s been seven years but they could not prove who was behind the Mumbai attacks and Insha Allah (if Allah wills it) they will never be able to prove it until eternity.”
He also mocked New Delhi for failing to establish any concrete proof in the seven years after 26/11 and claiming that India would never be able to establish his complicity in the attack.
Earlier JuD chief had slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for holding a meeting with Narendra Modi during the Paris climate change conference.
“Nawaz Sharif should not have met with Narendra Modi and exchanged smiles with him in Paris. It has hurt the sentiments of the Kashmiri Muslims,” Saeed said at a seminar titled ‘Kashmir Issue and Rise of Hindu Extremism in India’ at the Lahore High Court on December 2 organised by the Pakistan Justice Party.
He said Sharif should sever relations with India till resolution of the Kashmir issue.
“Nawaz Sharif should announce that there will be no talks with India till it ends atrocities against Kashmiri and Indian Muslims,” he said adding that till the resolution of the Kashmir dispute there should be no trade, no cricket and no talks with India.
Saeed said “When they are not in power they talk about the oppressed Kashmiri people as if they are the champion of the Kashmir cause. But when they are in power they forget them”.
Saeed founded the LeT whose operatives carried out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people.
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He insisted that firing and talks cannot go hand in hand between the two nations.
Echoing similar sentiments, Congress leader P.L. Punia told ANI, “Hafiz Saeed is saying that India does not have any evidence of his involvement in 26/11 terror attacks. We want to ask the External Affairs Minister if the important issues of terrorism and Hafiz Saeed were even discussed,” Punia told ANI.