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Militant leader vows to continue jihad in Indian Kashmir MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Friday (AFP) The founder of an outlawed militant group Thursday said Mujahedin would not stop their fight for freedom in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite peace talks between Pakistan and India. "Jihad (holy war) will never be stopped" in Kashmir, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the Lashkar-e-Taiba founder told a gathering of 800 people in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Lashkar, banned by President Pervez Musharraf in 2002, is one of two groups that India blamed for December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament in which 14 men including five gunmen were killed. The Himalayan territory of Kashmir divided between Pakistan and India is claimed by both in full. An armed insurgency in Indian Kashmir since 1989 has left more than 40,000 people dead. Separatist puts the toll twice as high. The militant leader also condemned Musharraf for pursuing a policy of friendship with India. |
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