{"id":18746,"date":"2019-07-10T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=18746"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T06:53:16","slug":"pakistan-army-and-govt-cant-be-trusted-al-qaeda-chief-releases-message-on-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=18746","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPakistan army and govt can\u2019t be trusted\u201d: Al Qaeda chief releases message on Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Al Qaeda\u2019s chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri has released a 14 minute long speech focussing on Kashmir and other issues including Pakistan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Zawahiri in his speech calls Muslims around the world to \u201cstrongly empathise\u201d with the cause \u2013 Jihad for the implementation of Shariah \u2013 of Kashmir. He also asks Muslims to express sympathies and extend support to the people living in the valley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The speech comes in the wake of killing of ISJK militant Adil Ahmad Dass who was allegedlly killed by Hizbul Mujahideen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Al Qaeda chief asserts that the Pakistan government &amp; army cannot be trusted vis-a-vis \u2018liberation of Kashmir\u2019. \u201cWhen it comes to defending Muslims, Pakistan army possesses a very dark history\u2026,\u201d he argues and cites Dhaka surrender, Balochistan, Waziristan &amp; Swat as examples.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a series of suggestions to Kashmir militants, he says \u201cthe first vital step is to turn the Jihad in Kashmir into Jihad for the sake of Allah\u2026to liberate Kashmir jihad from the clutches of Pakistan intelligence agencies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In his speech, the Al Qaeda chief calls on militants in Kashmir to \u201csingle-mindedly focus on inflicting unrelenting blows on the Indian army and government so as to bleed their economy\u2026make India suffer sustained losses in manpower &amp; equipment\u201d.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Zawahiri also urges militants in Kashmir to forge ties with jihadists across the world and open their channels with them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Al-Qaeda chief in his speech criticises Pakistani state, it\u2019s army by calling them\u201ctoadies of United States of America\u201d who according to Zawahiri, \u201cwere in lying in wait\u201d for Arab militants, wanting to head to Kashmir after \u201cexpelling\u201d Soviets from Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Qaeda\u2019s chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri has released a 14 minute long speech focussing on Kashmir and other issues including Pakistan. Zawahiri in his speech calls Muslims around the world to \u201cstrongly empathise\u201d with the cause \u2013 Jihad for the implementation of Shariah \u2013 of Kashmir. He also asks Muslims to express sympathies and extend support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}