Pakistan Uses Terrorist Hafiz Saeed As Pawn To Play Terror Victim Card

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad accused India of carrying out the 2021 attack on Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), which has its headquarters in Lahore, on the day when External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar reminded the world of the world's ever-present terror factory in Pakistan at the UNSC.

On November 26, 2008, Saeed's jihadist group and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) collaborated to carry out a massacre in Mumbai that resulted in the deaths of innocent Indians, Americans, and Israelis in addition to those carried out by Saeed's group. While India's foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto, berated Pakistan over the usual Kashmir dispute, his junior minister, from Islamabad, berated the Modi administration and accused Delhi of being responsible for the 2021 bombing that occurred close to Johar Town, the residence of the global Sunni jihadist.

The Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organisation located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, and led by Masood Azhar, the head of the Alvi family-run terror factory, carried out the attacks on Parliament on December 13, 2001, the Pathankot air base, the Uri Brigade, and Pulwama.

Bilawal Bhutto wants the public to believe that the Deobandi jihadist is in Afghanistan and is pleading with the Taliban to turn him over to Pakistan, despite the fact that the intelligence community is aware that Masood Azhar and Indian terrorist fugitive Dawood Ibrahim are protected by Pakistan at the head-of-state level.

Even as junior minister Hina Khar accused India of using its influence in the 1267 Committee to prevent the UN from designating some four Indians as terrorists, the truth is that Pakistan's iron brother China openly supported Islamabad in the Al Qaida sanctions committee and attempted to block Masood Azhar's global terrorist designation four times before giving up.

Khar's decision to draw attention to the alleged killing of uber-jihadist Hafiz Saeed during a news conference in Islamabad on Wednesday illustrates the menace and anxiety facing future terror kingpins in Pakistan. The Narendra Modi administration's surgical strikes in Uri and the Balakot attack have created doubt in the minds of Rawalpindi GHQ and its civilian surrogate, and Islamabad believes that these super jihadists are in danger of being eliminated as a result. 

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