Hafiz Saeed’s release raises fears of fresh terror wave in India, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

Hafiz Saeed’s release raises fears of fresh terror wave in India

In 1987, the lives of a Pakistani theologian and a Palestine-born jihadist who had been Osama bin-Laden’s ideological mentor intersected in Islamabad. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Abdullah Azzam together set up the Markaz Dawat ul-Irshad, the Centre for the Propagation of the Faith. In his seminal work, Pakistan’s Drift Into Extremism, the scholar Hassan Abbas has recorded that the institution was part of Azzam’s effort to revive the lost art and science of jihad.

Azzam was assassinated in 1989, but Saeed succeeded in turning the MDI, now called the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, into the largest Islamist institution in the world. Despite its proscription by the Security Council after the November, 2008, massacre in Mumbai, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa continues to operate a web of educational and charitable institutions out of its sprawling campus in Muridke, near Lahore.

Saeed’s efforts were backed by the Pakistani state. First appointed to Pakistan’s powerful state-run Council on Islamic Ideology by the military regime of General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, Saeed was later given a position at Lahore’s University of Engineering and Technology.

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Where silence prevails, justice will not, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com

Current affairs

Where silence prevails, justice will not

By Siddharth Varadarajan

When young Aman Kachroo was murdered by fellow students in a distant medical college in Himachal Pradesh last month, some politicians tried to appropriate his death to the narrative of forcible displacement that Kashmiri Pandits were subjected to by terrorist violence in the 1990s. Had the valley’s Hindus not felt compelled to flee, they argued, young Aman might well have studied in Srinagar, where the academic and social culture would not have allowed such wanton vi olence to be visited on a student in the name of “ragging.” Despite his death reflecting this invisible dimension of the larger tragedy of exile, however, the Kachroo family asked the politicians to back off. Aman died not because he was a Kashmiri Pandit or because the community was in exile but because of the insensitivity of the educational and law enforcement systems of the country. And his family is determined to make sure the lessons are learned and such tragedies never repeated.

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