Sunday, February 17, 2013

Exposing the hoax of Hindu terror

Pramod Kumar
Facts, information with US and UN and UPA forked tongue on terror disprove Shinde claim

HOW low can a Congress Minister fall for some votes? Beyond any limit.
This is what Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shindes recent statement on Hindu Terror proves.
It also shows that a Congress Minister can utter any deadly lie against his own country, again for the
minority votes. The question is why the Government is silent if it has evidence against anybody.
Stop denigrating the entire Hindu community, make the evidences public if you have any, told senior
BJP

leader

Dr

Murli

Manohar

Joshi

to

Shinde

on

February

in

New

Delhi.

True to the fear, Shindes statement was quickly picked up by top terrorists sitting in Pakistan. JuD
chief Hafeez Saeed and HuJI commander Iliyas Kashmiri on January 21, just next day of Shindes
statement, demanded ban on RSS-BJP. They went on to demand that India be declared a terrorist state
for promoting terrorism on its own soil. Before linking saffron with terror Shinde Saheb should
know the significance of saffron colour in Indian life. It symbolises our identity and by linking it with
terror, you have linked the entire nation with terrorism. You have insulted not only the age old Hindu
culture and traditions but also the entire nation, said Dr Joshi while terming the statement as a plot to
break the country. We condemn the statement in strongest words and the Congress will have to face

the

consequences

of

it

both

inside

and

outside

the

Parliament,

he

said.

Dr Joshi, who is also chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Lok Sabha, said the Home
Minister is deliberately ignoring vital facts on terror. He said a resolution of the United Nations
Security Council Committee on Sanctions of June 2009 had said: Arif Qasmani, chief coordinator of
the Lashkar-e-Taiba had funded the Samjhauta Express blast, with the al-Qaeda providing the staff
(men) for (carrying) out the blast. It also brings out that Pakistans interior minister Rehman Mallik
has said (in January 2010) that Pakistani terrorists were hired for the blast. It also brings out that the
confession of Faiza Outalha, the third wife of David Coleman Headley (in 2008, made public in
2010) that Headley was involved in the Samjhauta blast and she was also innocently involved; and
also the SIMI leaders testimony under narco effect (in 2007 made public in 2008) that they had
provided

support

for

the

Pakistanis

involved

in

the

attack.

These evidences demolish the entire story framed by National Investigative Agency (NIA) on
Samjhauta blast case. Interestingly, all this information is available in public domain, but is being
suppressed by the NIA in the investigation. These facts destroy the case of NIA and confirm the evil
intent

of

the

political

establishment

in

the

country,

Dr

Joshi

adds.

Senior columnist S Gurumurthy, in a well-investigated document, has also exposed all lies of the
Union Home Minister Shinde in this case. Quoting the resolution of the Committee on Sanctions of
the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) dated June 29, 2009 he said Arif Qasmani was funded
by Dawood Ibrahim and he did the fundraising for LeT and al-Qaida and in exchange for their
support, al-Qaida provided support staff for the February 2007 bombing of the Samjhauta Express in
Panipat. This resolution is available on the UN website. Two days later, on July 1, 2009, the United
States Treasury Department said in its press release: Arif Qasmani has worked with the LeT to
facilitate terrorist attacks, including... Samjota Express bombing. The US named four Pakistanis,
including Arif Qasmani as terrorists, under Executive Order No 13224. This press release is still on
the US Treasury site. The United Nations Security Council and the US Treasury Department thus
named the LeT, Qasmani and Dawood Ibrahim as accused in Samjhauta terror. This is just the
beginning

of

the

torrent

of

evidence

pointing

to

the

LeT

and

Pakistan.

Six months after the UN and US announced sanctions against LeT and Qasmani, India Today Online

(dated January 24, 2010) quoted Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Mallik admitting that Pakistani
terrorists were involved in the Samjhauta blast, but with a rider that some Pakistan-based Islamists
had

been

hired

by

Lt

Col

Purohit

to

carry

out

the

Samjhauta

Express

attack.

Not only this, an independent investigation in the US also confirmed Pakistan and LeTs involvement
in this case. Some 10 months later, Sebastian Rotella, a US journalist, wrote in his investigative report
titled U.S. agencies were forewarned about suspect in 2008 Mumbai bombings, that Faiza Outalha,
the third wife of David Coleman Headley had confessed (in 2008, which was made public in 2010)
that Headley was involved in the Samjhauta blast. Rotella added that Faiza felt that she had been
innocently used in the Samjhauta terror. In a follow up investigation, Sebastian Rotella disclosed in
April 2008 that Faiza returned to the Embassy in Islamabad with the tip about the 2008 Mumbai blast
when she again linked him to the Samjhauta blast. Rotella commented that though India and the US
blamed the attack on Lashkar, the US authorities had not implicated Headley in that still-unsolved
attack,

however.

Even in India, the evidence clearly pointed to the role of the Students Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI) and the LeT right from the investigation in 2007, In a report, India Today (dated September
19, 2008) said that Nagori gave meticulous account of the involvement of the LeT and Pakistan in the
Samjhauta terror. The report was based on narco test testimonies of SIMI leaders. The narcotic tests
were carried out on general secretary of SIMI, Safdar Nagori, his brother Kamruddin Nagori and
Amil Parvez in Bangalore in April 2007, three months after the Samjhauta blast. The results of these
narco tests were available with India Today. It revealed that SIMI activists had executed the
Samjhauta blast with the help of the Pakistani nationals from across the border; while Nagori was not
directly involved, two members of SIMI, Ehtesham Siddiqui and Nasir, were directly involved. SIMI
members, including Nagoris brother Kamaruddin, were involved in the Samjhauta blast; for
executing the Samjhauta blast, the Pakistanis had purchased the suitcase cover from Kataria Market
in Indore and one of the members from SIMI had helped the Pakistanis to get the suitcase cover
stitched. Investigation had established that in the blast, five bombs packed in suitcases and activated
by

timer

switches

were

used.

The question is why were these clinching pieces of evidence not pursued? How the blame shifted

from the Islamists to the Hindus? Some elements in the Maharashtra Police appear to have colluded
in linking the 2008 Malegaon blast to Samjhauta blast. When leads were thus pointing to Pakistan and
SIMI as partners in the Samjhauta blast, in November 2008, as an anti-climax, the Maharashtra AntiTerror Squad (ATS) shockingly told the Special Court on November 14, 2008 through the public
prosecutor that Col Purohit, allegedly involved in the Malegaon blast in which RDX was used, had
supplied

RDX

for

the

Samjhauta

blast

through

one

Bhagwan.

Within the next 48 hours on November 17, 2008, India Today refuted the ATS claim saying that
Samjhauta investigators had told it that a study of the blast by the National Security Guard (NSG)
said that no RDX, but Potassium Chlorate and Sulphur had been used as explosives. India Today also
recalled that immediately after the blasts, then Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil told the media that
not RDX, but, a new type of explosive had been used to bomb the Samjhauta Express. On that very
day (17.11.2008) the ATS counsel retracted the statement he had made earlier involving Col Purohit
in the blast. But the damage was done in the 48 hours. Immediately, Pakistan said that it would raise
the issue of Purohits involvement in Samjhauta at the Secretary-level meeting on November 25,
2008. Finally, on January 20, 2009, Maharashtra ATS officially denied that Col Purohit had supplied
RDX for Samjhauta. This was how the Samjhauta focuslater the blameshifted from the LeT and
the SIMI to Purohit and via Purohit on to saffron. The Maharashtra ATSs attempt to link Malegaon
2008 to Samjhauta, which shifted the focus away from the LeT on to Purohit, needs to be probed
particularly given Dawood Ibrahims deep influence on Maharashtra Police, argues Shri
Gurumurthy.

Shri Gurumurthy further argues that if Shinde is telling the truth, then the United Nations Security
Council and the US Treasury Department are fabricating charges against Qasmani, Dawood and LeT;
Faiza Outallah and The Washington Post are telling lies to fix the LeT and Pakistan; the SIMI
officials narco evidence is fabricated; and Rehman Malliks confession about Pakistani involvement
is

false.

Can

it

be

more

ridiculous?

It is clearly the lies of Shinde, the vote bank politician versus all neutral evidence. If this was how the
Samjhauta probe was perverted in the Malegaon 2006 blast, the Maharashtra ATS has filed a

chargesheet where the SIMI cadre had confessed to their role in the blast. But the CBI is procuring
confessions to exonerate them and implicate others, Hindus in the case. So Malegaon 2006 is
becoming a case of confession Vs confession! In Malegaon 2008 blasts, Col Purohit and his
associates have been charged and the evidence submitted in the Court shows that the accused in the
Malegaon 2008 case were planning to assassinate RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Indresh Kumar for
taking money from the ISI! How could the RSS, which is the target of the conspiracy itself, be the
conspirator?

Does

Shinde

know

what

he

is

talking?