லால் மசூதியைச் சார்ந்தவர்கள் பாகிஸ்தான் குண்டுவெடிப்புகளுக்கு பொறுப்பேற்றனர்

ராவல்பிண்டியில் மார்க்கெட்டில் குண்டுவெடிப்பு செய்து அப்பாவி பொதுமக்களை கொன்றது நாங்களே என்று இஸ்லாமாபாத் லால்மசூதியை சேர்ந்த இஸ்லாமிய தீவிரவாதிகள் அறிவித்துள்ளனர்

அபு ஹப்ஸ் என்ற லால் மசூதி இயக்கம் என்ற இயக்கத்தை நடத்திவரும் தலைவர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

முன்னாள் இந்துக்களான இவர்கள் இப்படி தவறான வன்முறை மார்க்கத்தில் சென்று மூளை கெட்டுப்போயிருக்கிறார்கள். பொதுமக்களள பொதுமக்கள் என்று கூட பார்க்கமுடியாதபடி இவர்களது கண்கள் மூடப்பட்டிருக்கின்றன.

இவர்கள் தாங்கள் இருக்கும் வன்முறை மார்க்கத்திலிருந்து விலகி அமைதி மார்க்கம் வர இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்.

Pakistan: Radical Red Mosque militants claim Rawalpindi blasts

Karachi, 4 Sept. (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - The militants linked to the radical Islamabad mosque, Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) have said that they are behind Tuesday's twin bomb blasts in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi which killed at least 24 people and injured over 60.

"This is a natural retaliation to the oppression against the Lal Masjid students and teachers," Abu Hafs, a leader of the Lal Masjid movement told Adnkronos International (AKI).

Speaking by telephone from an unknown location, Hafs confirmed that the militants carried out the blasts near the Pakistani military headquarters in Rawalpindi on Tuesday morning.

The first explosion went off on a bus carrying defence employees killing 17 people, and the second, a motorcycle bomb blew up in a market shotrly afterwards killing 7 people.

"The government massacred hundreds of people and used white phosphorous to annihilate the Lal Masjid and the innocent students and now they expect peace?" Abu Hafs told AKI.

Hafs was referring to the incident in July when the Pakistani military stormed the Lal Masjid and its affiliated madrassas or Islamic seminaries. The mosque compound had been occupied by by pro-Taliban militants and at least 100 people were killed during the seige and the military operation.

Sources linked with Lal masjid group have said that this is the beginning of a war in which the prime targets will be Pakistan's president General Pervez Musharraf, the religious affairs minister Ejazul Haq and the interior minister Aftab Sherpao.

These sources claimed that in the coming days the 'mujahadeen' and not the political parties will be running the country.

On 25 August, a message was emailed to local and foreign media in Pakistan, which threatened retaliatory attacks after the military stormed the Lal Masjid on 10 July and killed the mosque's radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

"Dusk on 10 July, witnessed the fall of a gallant warrior. Perhaps the bravest this land has seen," read the message which was sent with a photo of Ghazi and an announcement that the Lal Masjid's website had been restored.

"His revolutionary pride refused to bow down before a system which is based on tyranny and oppression. He might be dead but he lives through the cause his blood sanctified. To our nation, which, is enslaved for the past three hundred years, he gave the will to resist the ruling class and the imperial powers with the slogan - Shariat Ya Shahadat. We are back with the bang.”

Soon after the message was sent, AKI received a CD message carrying the images of the Lal Masjid and an announcement that a wave of suicide attack will soon hit the country .

Attacks by militants have increased since the Lal Masjid operation.

The level of violence has increased significantly in the restive tribal regions of South and North Waziristan where 18 paramilitary troops were kidnapped by pro-Taliban militants and eventually released.

Although Pakistani officials said that the release was unconditional, sources have said that as many as 1,200 arrested militants were released in exchange for the soldiers.

Soon after the paramilitary troops were freed, close to 300 Pakistani soldiers and officers were abducted last week by pro-Taliban militants in South Waziristan.

Several security personnel were also abducted in Mohmand tribal region.

“The mujahadeen had a forward strategy immediately after the Lal Masjid operation but through backchannel dialogue, the government of Pakistan assured us that it would withdraw its troops from the tribal area therefore we called our men back from Pakistani cities," said Rasool Dawar, a spokesman for pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan in a phone interview with AKI.

"Those men were only waiting for a signal to flood Pakistan with suicide attacks," he said.

"However, the Pakistani forces defied their pledges and continued to mount attacks on the mujahadeen,"Dawar told AKI. "In addition, they coordinated a US strike within the Waziristan area. That situation prompted the mujahadeen to give a crashing reply to Pakistan and now you will see a major wave of attacks on Musharraf and his allies," he said.

The military operation on the Lal Masjid has caused a lot of resentment within the jihadi circles in Pakistan, who are even unhappy with the role played by Pakistan's Muslim clerics in trying to prevent the operation on the mosque.

Maulana Hanif Jalandari, the former secretary general of the Wifaqul Madarris, a federation of Islamic seminaries, recently received death threats while the Grand Mufti of Pakistan, Rafi Usmani was recently sent bangles - an apparent symbol of his "unmanly" attitude during the operations.