PAKISTAN: ARMED POLICE RAID HOMES AND SEAL OFFICES OF BANNED ISLAMIC MILITANT GROUPS
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PAKISTAN: ARMED POLICE RAID HOMES AND SEAL OFFICES OF BANNED ISLAMIC MILITANT GROUPS
- Title: PAKISTAN: ARMED POLICE RAID HOMES AND SEAL OFFICES OF BANNED ISLAMIC MILITANT GROUPS
- Date: 15th January 2002
- Summary: (W4) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JANUARY 13, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV/MV POLICE OUTSIDE MOSQUE (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. SLV EXTERIOR OF LASHKAR-E-TAIBA OFFICE; SCU LASHKAR-E-TAIBA FLAG; SLV LASHKAR-E-TAIBA OFFICE; MV SEALED ENTRANCE; MV LOCKED DOOR; SCU PADLOCK; MV LASHKAR-E-TAIBA BANNER (6 SHOTS) 0.44 (W4) ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (JANUARY 13, 2002) (REUTERS) 3. WIDE OF IMRAN KHAN, HEAD OF TEHREEK INSAFFA PARTY AND FORMER PAKISTAN CRICKET CAPTAIN, SEATED 0.49 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) IMRAN KHAN SAYING "For (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf to stop that freedom fight as perceived in this country is going to be extremely damaging for this country. What India is trying to do is, it is using September 11 and then these terrorist attacks on December 13th in Delhi it is using that to finish off the freedom struggle in Kashmir. And the more Musharraf gives in the more they are pushing him to give more concessions and I'm afraid already there is a bit of a backlash in this country, especially from the religious parties. I don't think he can really give any more." 1.35 5. MV INTERVIEW WITH ALLAMA HAMID MUSHFI, LEADER OF TEHREEK-E-NIFAZ-E-FIQAE-JAFRIA 1.40 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) MUSHFI SAYING "All the people should condemn the terrorists and the acts that they do. They give Pakistan and Islam a bad name." 1.59 7. WIDE OF MUSHFI/ MUSHFI WITH SUPPORTERS (2 SHOTS) 2.11 (U5) MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR (JANUARY 13, 2002) (REUTERS) 8. MV INTERVIEW WITH SARDAR SAKANDAR HAYAT KHAN, PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR 2.15 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SARDAR SAKANDAR HAYAT KHAN, PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR SAYING "Bilateral talks will not succeed when there is, no third party and there is compulsion behind both those two. Otherwise, they will sit, they will discuss and again they will go back. The time frame should be given to India and Pakistan and the UN and the United States should see that within that timeframe, both countries sit and have a dialogue and solve the Kashmir problem." 2.51 10. MV/SCU KASHMIRIS READING NEWSPAPERS (3 SHOTS) 3.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KARACHI AND ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN AND MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR
- Country: Pakistan
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- Story Text: Armed police have raided homes and sealed offices of
banned Islamic militant groups as Pakistan watched to see if
the crackdown ordered by its president would appease India and
calm a tense standoff at border.
India appeared un-moved by President Musharraf's moves
towards peace demanding that Islamabad
match its words with action before a massive Indian troop
build-up along the tense border between the two countries
would be scaled down.
In the volatile port city of Karachi, armoured vehicles
mounted with machineguns were posted outside commercial and
government buildings and at some of the offices of the banned
groups to prevent a violent backlash on Sunday (January 13).
Armed police and paramilitary rangers patrolled the main
streets of Pakistan's commercial hub but the city was quiet
and there was no sign of a feared backlash to the clampdown.
Police armed with assault rifles burst into homes and
offices of sectarian and pro-Kashmiri militants in some areas
of Pakistan, picking up some 130 people and sealing offices in
accordance with the announcement a day earlier by President
Pervez Musharraf of a ban on five groups.
In his historic address to the nation, Musharraf said
sectarian violence must end and Pakistan could not be used as
a springboard for militant attacks in other countries.
The clampdown on Islamic militancy was widely welcomed but
many said they were not sure if the president's words were
enough to avert war with India.
Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan's Tehreek Insaffa justice
movement party and former cricket captain of his country said
he feared a backlash amongst the religious community if
Musharraf conceded any more to India's demands for a
tightening of controls over fundamentalists.
He accused India of using the event's of September 11,
2001 and the resulting international drive against terrorism,
to bolster its position in Kashmir.
In his address, Musharraf said Pakistan would never
abandon its support for what Pakistan calls the legitimate
struggle for self-determination by the mostly Muslim people of
Kashmir.
But at the same time he bowed to Demands from Delhi,
banning the two Kashmiri rebel groups blamed by India for the
parliament attack, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Scores of leaders and activists from the two groups have
been detained in Pakistan over the past month.
Allama Hamid Mushfi, leader of the moderate
Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqae-Jafria Islamic group, threw his
support behind Musharraf.
"All the people should condemn the terrorists and the acts
that they do. They give Pakistan and Islam a bad name," said
Tension between nuclear rivals Pakistan and India stands
at a 15-year high, with about a million troops facing each
other across the border following a bloody December 13 attack
on the Indian parliament that New Delhi blamed on
Pakistan-based Kashmiri separatists but the chief of
Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Prime Minister Sardar Sakandar
Hayat Khan denied any such activity was underway in his
region.
In reply to Singh's assertion that India would not
tolerate any third party involvement in the Kashmir crisis,
Khan insisted the only way to bring the dispute to an end was
for the United States and the United Nations to set a time
frame for dialogue between India and Pakistan and to see to it
that within that time frame a solution to the problem of
Kashmir be reached.
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