Hafiz warns Pak of 'India’s Afghan plans'

Saeed alleged India has sent its troops to Afghanistan to fill the vacuum created by US forces departure

Karachi: Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed has once again made hate speeches against India and the US. Saeed alleged India has sent its troops to Afghanistan to fill the vacuum created by the departure of US forces.

"India has sent 25,000 soldiers to Afghanistan and more Indian troops are on their way. The Indian forces will achieve its design against Pakistan sitting in Afghanistan. The presence of Indian forces in Afghanistan is a great threat to Pakistan's integrity," Saeed told a seminar at the Lahore High Court building on Thursday.

The Pakistan Justice Party had organised the seminar.

Thursday's incident was the second time that Saeed addressed lawyers and others within court premises this year. In May, the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) founder was invited as chief guest at the Lahore High Court Bar Association. Saeed claimed the US was behind the deployment of Indian forces on Pakistan's western border.

"The US wants to teach a lesson to Pakistan by patronising India. America had also wanted to target Pakistan's atomic programme while sitting in Afghanistan, but it miserably failed because of the sacrifices of Muslims," the LeT founder said. A large number of CIA agents like Raymond Davis had been working in Pakistan with impunity to destabilise the country, he claimed.

He claimed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the election campaign, had asked Pakistani Hindus to migrate to India if they did not feel safe in their country.

But it was because of the JuD's relief work that they had decided to stay in Pakistan, he claimed.

The JuD was busy in providing relief to the internally displaced persons of North Waziristan where military operation is underway, Saeed said. "We are providing food and other daily use items to the IDPs," he said.

Last month, Washington had added the LeT's affiliates including the JuD to its list of designated terror organisations and slapped sanctions against two Pakistan-based Lashkar leaders. "The US State Department has amended Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's designations to add its aliases: Jamaat-ud- Dawah, Al-Anfal Trust, Tehrik-e-Hurmat- e-Rasool and Tehrik-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awwal," an official statement had said.