LTTE, not LeT, behind attack on SL cricketers

[PakShaheen79]

This is exactly what I am wondering here. Look how they start posting as soon as name of LTTE came up despite knowing well that this was told to Gilani by SL president not by Pakistani investigators.

 

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Terrorists may have links in Lanka: Gilani

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said here on Sunday that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse was of the opinion that terrorist elements in his country might be involved in acts of violence in Pakistan.

Mr Gilani said that during his recent meeting in Libya, the Sri Lankan leader had told him there were indications that elements in Sri Lanka were linked to incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, including the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.

He said that investigators in both countries were also looking into reports that terrorists in Pakistan had received finances from Sri Lanka.

The prime minister who was talking to journalists at the Shifa hospital where he had gone to inquire after the health of Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi, also said that after the success of the operation in Swat and Malakand, the government was preparing an exit strategy as part of a long-term plan to root out terrorism.

He, however, said that the army would stay in Swat and other areas to eradicate militancy and restore peace.

The government, he said, was considering a proposal to set up a cantonment in Swat.

About the chief ministers’ meeting convened by him, Mr Gilani said it would try to work out a common strategy on supply and prices of sugar and other essential commodities.

He said that in Punjab sugar was still being sold at Rs47 per kg and despite LHC’s order and tax relief, mill-owners had refused to reduce the price.

He said the government wanted uniform sugar price across the country, adding that the decision to sell sugar at Rs47 per kg had been taken in consultation with all stakeholders, including ministries concerned, the Trading Corporation of Pakistan and representatives of sugar mills.

About the criticism of the Northern Areas political package, Mr Gilani said it had been prepared in accordance with a longstanding demand of the people of Gilgit and Baltistan.

The package, he said, gave the people of Northern Areas internal autonomy and sovereignty in their affairs and now they had the authority similar to that enjoyed by provinces.

Answering a question about complaints regarding lack of consultations, Mr Gilani said he had held consultations with the president and the prime minister of Azad Kashmir on the region’s new status.

The prime minister rejected a perception that the reforms package would have a negative impact on Pakistan’s stand on Kashmir and said the government was firm on its principled stand and would keep on supporting the Kashmiri people.

When asked about the duration of the military operation in tribal areas, he said the government, army and nation were united in the resolve to stamp out terrorism.

He stressed the need for making people and religious scholars aware about threats posed by terrorism which was affecting economic development and creating serious law and order problems.

‘Military operation is just one component of the government’s multi-dimensional policy. It was started when terrorism reached an extreme point,’ he said.

Terrorism, Mr Gilani said, could not be eliminated overnight, adding that law-enforcement agencies, local administration and politicians were working together to establish good governance and carry out development projects.

 

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1.brother

go to saag website...where indian Intelligence officals like B RAMON ex raw chief writes...
when even investigation was on its initial stages B RAMON said

how the hell he knew that even before pak Investigation knew it

2.secondly do you know Pakistans High comissioner Bashir wali was attacked in srilanka



3.read kutalya, the father of deciet and trechery, father of modern indian politics

4.then read Jaswant singhs new book you will know what india is all about

indians have habbit of barking and they bark and moan as a habbit

answers to
1-the main job of intelligence is to know the info before anyone comes to know it. It means raw nowdays is working fine.
2. It was ltte's job.
3. These are principles for formulating good foreign policies. I am amazed at you saying the book a crap as it is one of the best diplomatic books. Diplomacy is backbone for a country's stand in world geo-politics.
4. He is a professional writer and knows how to attract customers.
Now you can see who is barking.

 

[PakShaheen79]

Now I get why u are barking like hell in here, first listen to what Pakistan has said, It said that India has hand in Lahore attacks. You are prooving your worth by these statements you made..

Listen you dump troll! Stay to the topic. This is about what PM Gilani told media with reference to the President of SL. FYI, Inquiry is still underway and police has asked media to restraint from speculations. Investigators has not made any thing conclusive yet so please safe yourself cow urine energy for another day but i think you have taken an overdose

 

[PakShaheen79]

1-the main job of intelligence is to know the info before anyone comes to know it. It means raw nowdays is work ing fine.

Yeah Yeah... RAW was on holiday when 10 odd people took Mumbai hostage for three days. lol

It was ltte's job.

So if LTTE can attack Pakistan ambassador in SL why they can't fund an attack in Pakistan?

Now you can see who is barking.

In this threat? Definitely Endians who are uninvited here in this threat

 

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It's a fact that Indian media reports Pakistan in a negative limelight almost all the time. I said almost cuz there are those rare instances where they've praised the cricket team and late ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I was listening to this gentlemen from India a buisnessman on some India Pak relation post, I forgot his name but I think Ashwani or something, he goes I travel all over India and it's shame each time a news about Pak is given it's always negative, and the country is portrayed negatively. Indian members can surely vouch for that if they're being honest. I think it's also a shame that India is quick to point finger at us calling us intolarent and whatnot but fails to comprehand that the other 3 fingers are pointed back at them, portraying Pakistan in a negative manner in the media and political lobby has become a norm, this is only telling vast majority of Indians to be intolarable of Pakistan and possess negative views as quiet evident in this thread and many other on this website and around the net.

 

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Editorial: Tamil Tigers and Taliban terrorists

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has stated that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, during a recent meeting in Libya, told him that “elements in Sri Lanka could be linked to incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, including the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore”. Both countries were now looking into “reports that terrorists in Pakistan had received finances from Sri Lanka,” Mr Gilani said on Sunday.

It should be remembered that Sri Lanka, subject to terrorism over decades, had always adopted a posture of “understanding” towards terror-stricken Pakistan. Despite the fact that world cricket was reluctant to visit Pakistan, Sri Lanka had sent its national team on a tour to Pakistan. The gesture was more in line with the thinking that terrorism should not disrupt normal links between countries. This was how Sri Lanka wanted the world to treat Pakistan.

The world knew the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organisation but full information about its international activities was known only to think tank experts and the Sri Lankan government. Because at one level it was also an India-Sri Lanka issue, much of the global terrorist spread of the LTTE was obfuscated. However, it was by and large accepted by all that Al Qaeda had benefited from the “technology levels” available in LTTE’s capacity to inflict damage.

For instance, a report posted on the US Council on Foreign Relations website asserts that “the secular, nationalist LTTE has no operational connection with al-Qaeda, its radical Islamist affiliates, or other terrorist groups”. It does however accept that Al Qaeda copied the Tigers’ innovation of the “jacket” apparatus worn by individual suicide bombers. LTTE did do some training in Palestine and inspire copycat terrorism in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.

But Sri Lankan scholars have gone deeper into the LTTE activities than non-Sri Lankans. For instance, Shanaka Jayasekara, Terrorism Researcher, Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, has zeroed in on the “contact” that no one talks about in Pakistan. He writes:

“Brian Joyce in an article in the Jane’s Intelligence in November 2002 on Terrorist Financing in South Asia states that the LTTE shipping fleet provided logistics support to Harkat-al Mujahideen, a Pakistani militant group with Al Qaeda affiliations, to transport a consignment of weapons to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines. The LTTE used a merchant vessel registered by a front company in Lattakia, Syria, until 2002”.

Pakistan’s own intelligence may not have been very successful in finding the connection — our old spooks now singing on TV are more interested in fighting Mossad and RAW — but there has been a constant buzz in Pakistan about the Taliban and its patron Al Qaeda taking whatever money comes their way to inflict damage on Pakistan. Foreign countries and their intelligence agencies have been often named to explain the holding power of the Taliban.

Foreign terrorists too have been reported as a part of the baggage unloaded by Al Qaeda on its minions in South Waziristan. Even warlord Fazlullah in Swat was allowing “foreigners” to fight the Pakistan Army and behead innocent local people. It is therefore not beyond the Taliban — whose side-business is nothing but extortion and killing for profit — to do “the job” for the LTTE in Lahore for money.

The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team was carried out by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi of the Taliban Tehreek Punjab, the most allied of Al Qaeda allies in the country. An officer of the Punjab police had however blamed India once again for the act of terrorism, assigning to New Delhi the motive that could very well be the motive of elements in Tamil Nadu that support the LTTE, and probably of the ruling political party of Tamil Nadu presently in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s coalition at the centre.

Perhaps the most meaningful lesson for Pakistan to draw comes from the way Sri Lanka has dealt with the terrorism of LTTE. It tackled the long-term Indian involvement inside Sri Lanka on behalf of the nationalists of Tamil Nadu by “normalising” its relations with New Delhi, signing a free-trade treaty with it, and then confronting an increasingly isolated LTTE and putting an end to it.



The editorial writers have done well to point out how Sri Lanka has dealt with Indian terrorism -- that is to say by "normalising" their long term relations with India - however; the editorial writers leave out two of the obvious ways in which Sri Lnka has managed her realtions with her relentless neighbor, India: 1. It has at great cost to blood and treasure, defeated the the LTTE 2. Lanka has expanded her long term relations with other countries, namely, Pakistan and China.