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Famous author and thinker, Selig Harrison, warned that the LeT is could topple the democratic set-up of Pakistan and take over the reigns of the country.
In his article carried out in the 'The Boston Globe', Harrison stressed that there was an immediate need to disarm the group’s militias.
“It does not come from the Taliban guerrillas now battling the Pakistan Army in the Swat borderlands. It comes from a proliferating network of heavily armed Islamist militias in the Punjab heartland and major cities directed by Lashkar-e-Toiba, a close ally of al Qaeda, which staged the terrorist attack last November in Mumbai, India,” Harrison said.
Harrison asked the United States not to make any new aid commitments to Pakistan until it takes decisive action to disarm LeT.
“Disarming Lashkar-e-Toiba should be the top US priority in Pakistan because it would greatly reduce the possibility of a coup by Islamist sympathizers in the Armed Forces,” The Nation quoted Harrison, as saying.
“The Islamists in the Army and the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are not likely to risk a coup in Islamabad unless they can count on armed support from Lashkar-e-Toiba and its allies to help them consolidate their grip on the countryside,” he added.
Harrison underlined the need to reduce the escalating tension between India and Pakistan, which he feared could trigger a war between the two nuclear countries.
“A strong US stand on Lashkar-e-Toiba is necessary to defuse India-Pakistan tensions that could lead to another war and to sustain the improvement now taking place in US relations with India, a rising power eight times larger than Pakistan,” he stated.
Referring to the Pakistan government ordering a crackdown on the LeT operative after intense international pressure following the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Harrison said all such efforts were mere hogwash.
“The Pakistan government did make a show of cracking down on Lashkar-e-Tiiba after the Mumbai tragedy, but the government stopped short of breaking up the militias and destroying the weapons stockpiles at their four training camps near Muridke and Muzaffarabad,” wrote Harrison.
“It has yet to prosecute the six prisoners or to arrest Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, identified by US and Indian intelligence sources as the ringleader of the Mumbai attack,” he said.
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The authorities in Pakistan are not serious about eliminating Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), 'a close ally of al Qaeda'. After all, this militant group was sponsored, trained and nourished by Pakistan's ISI to carry out militant activities across the LOC in Kashmir. It has by now turned out to be a terrorist organization mainly planning and directing its terror activities inside India. Post November 11, 2008, any further LeT terrorist action inside India is bound to result in a war between the two neighboring countries. There is no telling the resulting damages to both countries. Pakistan must act responsibly and totally eradicate this organization. Pakistan cannot continue to play games anymore. The whole world knows how insincere it has been.
Through out the history we could find conflicts between civilisations in the name of god .monotheism -- belief in a single, omniscient God is the root cause reason for all these issues. Previousl. Now its in a different form .Firstly we should learn how to co-exist understanding each other , asccepting each other
U.S Will say one day that Taliban is the biggest threat the next day L E T is a major threat but the real threat according to them is India as the U.S economy is in shatters . They dosent want India to develop and become a super power . They will fund Pakistan even after Pentagon released a News that Pakistan has been diverting the funds given by U.S as Aid to develop their people have been used to buy Arms againgt India. These white skinned people wont allow the Asian countries to prosper as their own existence will become a big question mark.These people will give Aid to Pakistan in Trillions and watch the fun.
A country which could have developed in line with other nations in South Asia towards modernization was politically and economically shattered. Almost 2 million Afghans were killed. One time the CIA supported the Talibans, another time the CIA supported the enemies of Talibans: the Northern Alliance. These religious fundamentalists set humanrights back centuries to the extent they are even an embarrassment to world Muslims. Both Muslim and non-Muslim governments within the region fear destabilization through Taleban fundamentalism. The fact is, both the U.S. andUSSR bear responsibility for having attempted to control Afghanistan,thereby shattering the country in the process. If these powers had merely attempted to help the Afghan people develop their country, rather than enforce hegemony over the country for their own self-interested strategic designs, there would have been no such humanitarian crisis.Imperialism ruins a nation and points fingers at Islam a peaceful religion.