With jihad topmost on their minds

On February 5, 2011, the day Pakistan commemorates annually as Kashmir day, Hafiz Saeed and his followers from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) offered to recruit and train a million jihadis to ‘free’ Kashmir. Later in the year, in December, the LeT and other extremist organisations met up in Lahore to commemorate the Difa-e-Pakistan day, where the main point of discussion revolved around hatred, injustice to Islam and the need to defeat the United States, Israel and India. It was a show of force by the Jamaat-ut-Dawa (terror outfits belonging to the same cradle), which threatened the US, NATO and India with jihad (with special reference to violent jihad in Kashmir) that was obligated upon all Muslims.

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