Posted on 03/17/2002 7:40:40 AM PST by Madiuq
Over 800 terrorists, arrested following the ban on five jihadi groups imposed by President Pervez Musharraf on January 12, have been released under the newly-formulated conditional amnesty after the detainees signed an undertaking, promising not take part in extremist activities. "Yes, the government has released those jailed activists of the five banned jihadi organisations on giving an undertaking that they would not take part in any extremist activity at least in the next couple of years," an official told Pakistan news agency NNI, adding that every one of them was released only after inking the bond. The unnamed official said that the conditional amnesty would not be applicable to the leaders of the outfits. He said the leaders have not been offered any release package. "They would be brought to justice after they are formally charged before courts," he said. The released activists belonged to the Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Sipah-e-Sehaba of Pakistan, (SSP), Sipah-e-Muhammad and Harkatul Mujahideen, he said. Of the five outfits, Jaish and Lashkar were blamed by New Delhi for various terrorists attacks, including the one on December 13 on Parliament, in India. The conditional amnesty was announced after the police officials said that several persons who were not very actively connected with the outfits were taken into custody in the crackdown. Some of the arrested men also went to courts questioning their detention.
The pakistini P.M. WAS right in saying that his people where backward and stupid!Even his comment above is stupid. What he doesn't know is now these people have now nothing to lose(How can you charge a suicide terrorist if he has done his deed and now lies deceased.)
There is nothing to stop them turning pakistan into another Palistine/Israel.By my quote look at the terrorist who attacked the church in Islamabad today and let loose with 6 grenades inside the church,killing and maiming innocent pakistanisi and westerners including at least one Australian.
I suspect these terrorists where the ones who fled the U.S. Ground attack in Gardez in Afganistan.(which isn't all that far from islamabad.
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