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Ex-ISI chief calls for jehad over J-K - The Indian Express
Press Trust of India
()
17 September 1997
Title: Ex-ISI chief calls for jehad over J-K
Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: September 17, 1997
The former director general of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)
General Hamid Gul, has claimed that his country was "coming to the brink"
of waging a nuclear war with India over Kashmir and gave a call to the
so-called Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) government to declare jehad (holy
war) over the issue.
"We have come to the brink on Kashmir, which is sitting on powder keg of
conventional and non-conventional weapons and we have little choice left,
but to go to war", Gul told a news conference here.
His remarks assume significance with reports of growing opposition to Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif from hawkish elements in the army.
"Too much leeway has been given to India", Gul, now in political
wilderness, threatened claiming that Pakistan would be fully justified in
declaring war on India over Kashmir.
He called on the puppet government in PoK to declare jehad in Kashmir. "Lot
of out young lads and those from Kashmir are being killed in Kashmir and we
should officially declare a jehad in Kashmir", he said.
Gul admitted that, "Religious schools in Pakistan were training young
cadres and then sending them to Kashmir and Afghanistan" claiming, "it is
our right to help".
He quipped that the days of the Nawaz Sharif Government in Pakistan were
numbered.
Gul claimed that India through United States and other western powers was
putting pressure on Pakistan authorities to get, "our Mujahiddin forces to
be destroyed by out own armed forced". He claimed that Indian security
agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), and some other foreign agencies
were sponsoring widespread armed attacks in Pakistan.
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