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With logistical support from the government, outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed on Friday told his supporters that Pakistanis should come forward and help the Kashmiris in getting "freedom" from India.
"If India can send troops to Afghanistan to help the US then Mujahideen have every right to go to Kashmir and help their brethren. Kashmiris are clamouring for help and it is our duty to respond to their call," he said addressing a JuD congregation at historical Minar-e-Pakistan ground in Lahore.
The two-day congregation concluded on Friday.
A large number of Saeed's supporters reached Lahore from across Pakistan. The Nawaz government had also run two special trains from Karachi and Hyderabad to transport to the JuD congregation.
Saeed, who roams around freely in Pakistan despite being a designated terrorist, also asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to tell India firmly that the Kashmir issue had be resolved peacefully under the United Nation's resolution. Otherwise it would be obligatory on him to extend his government's full support to Kashmiris in securing freedom.
"We want to tell Nawaz Sharif that if India does not listen 'a language of love' then he should provide an open support to the Kashmiris for their freedom struggle," Saeed, who is also the founder of banned terror group Laskar-e-Tayiba, told his supporters.
Saeed said, "Acting on Quran it is obligatory on all of us to help Kashmiris in their struggle to get freedom for India. Those who had performed Jihad against Russia should go to Kashmir and help the Kashmiris. Gone are the days when Mujahideen were declared terrorists and sanctions were imposed. Now Jihad has entered in the second phase (in Kashmir). To deal with the Indian atrocities we will have to adopt the course of Ghaznavi and Ghauri (invaders)".
He said when India and its allies "invaded" Muslim countries, then Jihad was the only option left with Muslims to react.
He asked Obama as to why he could not see the Indian government "atrocities" in Kashmir, Hyderabad, Assam, and Israel's in Palestine.
Targeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the JuD chief said: "By holding sham elections Modi wants to tell the world that Kashmir is not a disputed territory."