Some leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), a banned organization of Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack, have claimed that their organization played a role in the major protests in Bangladesh last year, due to which the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to be out of power.
In fact, Jud leader Saifullah Kasuri and the United Nations terrorist Muzammil Hashmi claimed this in their speeches earlier this week. He openly referred to the events of Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation struggle and told him an opportunity to take revenge.
According to the news agency, Kasuri while addressing supporters in Rahim Yar Khan’s Allahabad area said, ‘When I was four years old, Pakistan was divided into two parts. The then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, had said that he submerged two-nation theory in the Bay of Bengal. But on May 10, we took revenge on 1971.
He also admitted that one of his companions Mudassar was killed in an aerial attack on Muridke (Jud/Let Headquarters) by India on 7 May, whose corpse was broken into pieces. He said, ‘I was not allowed to go into his funeral. That day I cried a lot.
Surprisingly, the top military, police and civil bureaucracy of Pakistan’s Punjab province, including Mudassar, participated in front of the cameras in the funeral of three Jud terrorists.
Kasuri said, “I was meeting people in my assembly at the time of Pahgam attack. But India made me the mastermind of this attack. Now my city Kasur has become famous all over the world. We are preparing the next generation for jihad. We have no fear of dying.”
On the other hand, Muzammil Hashmi, while addressing the Indian leadership at a meeting held in Gujranwala, claimed, “We defeated you in Bangladesh last year.”
Hashmi’s gesture was on the protests on August 5, after which Sheikh Hasina was out of power. According to the report, Hasina came to India and three days later Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the Chief Advisor of the Interim Government.
After the eviction of Hasina’s power, there has been a tremendous improvement in the relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh. Reacting to these statements, former Pakistan diplomat Hussain Hakkani said, “This kind of public rhetoric of jihadi extremists makes it difficult for the world to believe that Pakistan no longer sponsored or supports these forces.”