Pak Islamist wants action against Rahul Gandhi for'conspiracy'

Action should have been taken on the statement of Rahul Gandhi regarding "conspiracy for dismemberment of Pakistan", says the top terrorist leader.

A top terrorist leader has flayed the Pakistan government for trying to improve relations with India instead of taking action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his statement on "dismemberment of Pakistan".

Action should have been taken on the statement of Rahul Gandhi regarding "conspiracy for dismemberment of Pakistan", said Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), at a prayer meeting in a Rawalpindi mosque on Friday.

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Instead of taking action against the Congress leader, the government of Pakistan is strengthening friendship with India, said Saeed, who is also the head of an Islamist charity group Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), which has been accused of funding several terror plots.

Saeed praised hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Gillani at whose public meeting recently anti-India slogans were raised.

Saeed said one can stay alive if one loses one's arm but cannot if the jugular vein is lost. "Kashmir is our jugular vein. Kashmir freedom movement will continue. We have to assure Kashmiris that freedom movement cannot be suppressed," Saeed said.

The LeT founder supported steps being taken by the clerics of Lal Masjid in Islamabad to enforce Sharia law in the country.

The JUD has been accused of funding terror plots abroad, including in India, with the millions of US dollars raised by its volunteers for the earthquake victims in Pakistan.