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' Liyaqat ' s arrest setback for rehabilitation policy '

Geelani wants no separatist icon bigger than him: CM

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
with his wife and children, we
said the arrest of Syed Liyaqat
have taken up the issue with Cen-
Shah is a setback for the state gov-
tre, because we know if wrong is
ernment ' s rehabilitation policy
done with Liyaqat, others who
for the former militants. Shah, he
want to take benefit of surrender
said, was not headed to Delhi to
policy will hold back,” Omar
carry out Fidayeen attacks.“ If a
said in the Legislative Assembly
man comes to attack a shopping
while winding up the discussion
mall, will he come with his wife
on the grants of the departments
and children? I am hearing for
under his charge.
the first time that a militant came
Chief Minister said Liyaqat was
to attack holding the hand of his
a former militant who had sought
wife and carrying weapons in
amnesty under the state governother
hand, as if going for a pic-
ment ' s Rehabilitation Policy and
nic. When militants come they
was not headed to carry out any
carry grenades and guns in
Fidayeen attack at New Delhi as
hands, Liyaqat was returning
claimed by Delhi Police.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has claimed that Hurriyat Conference( G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah exercised restraint over the issue of Muhammad Afzal Guru“ to ensure that no other separatist icon becomes bigger than him.” He said the separatists like Yasin Malik were reticent on the return of youth from across under the Rehabilitation Policy,“ as he( Malik) is himself relaxing at his home.”
“ It is all very well for him( Malik) because he has come back and adopted this Gandhian persona. He wants everybody to forget his antecedents. That is very convenient for him because he is relaxing at home. He is the one who encouraged these people to go( to PaK). He was their role model. If he were sitting in the sort of conditions they are in, he wouldn ' t be talking like this.

94 % LeT recruits
to a US military report.
The eye-opener report from the
cruited from Pakistan ' s Punjab province and are actually rather well edu-
US Military Academy in West Point
cated compared with Pakistani
is result of a multi-year research effort
conducted by a lead team of five
While LeT ' s recruitment is di-

view JK as fighting
males generally.

front: US report
eminent authors including C Chris-
versified across the north, central
A staggering 94 per cent of fresh re- tine Fair, Don Rassler and Anirban and southern parts of the Punjab, the
cruits of Lashkar-e-Taiba( LeT) see Ghosh, and is based on a study of highest concentration of militants Jammu and Kashmir as a“ fighting over 900 biographies of the de- have come( in order of frequency) front” and hail mostly from Paki- ceased LeT militants. from the districts of Gujranwala, stan ' s Punjab province from families
According to the report that Faisalabad, Lahore, Sheikhupura, having links with the powerful army runs into nearly 60 pages, the vast Kasur, Sialkot, Bahawalnagar, and intelligence network, according majority of LeT ' s fighters are re- Bahawalpur, Khanewal and Multan.
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