There is a U.S. bounty on Hafiz Saeed’s head, and his group has been declared a terror organization by the U.S., but our friend and ally Pakistan lets him roam around freely, and even operates special trains to carry people to his conference. Why does Pakistan receive even a penny of American aid?
“Pakistan running special trains for terrorist Hafiz Saeed, PTI, December 3, 2014:
Lahore: In a sign of official patronage to Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led JuD, Pakistan government is running two special trains to transport people to Lahore for the terror group’s two-day congregation here.
The chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a front for terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, Saeed told reporters here on Tuesday that thousands of people would participate in the congregation starting on December 4 at the ground of Minar-i-Pakistan monument.
Pakistan Railways is operating the first train from today from Hyderabad, Sindh province, that will arrive in Lahore on Wednesday night.
Another train will leave from Karachi and arrive here on December 4. The two special trains will also take the people back to their hometowns on the conclusion of the congregation.
The JuD leadership had spoken to railways minister Saad Rafique for his permission to run special trains for its congregation, official sources told PTI.
Spokesman for the country’s railways Rauf Tahir said there had been a “uniform policy” to run special trains on the request of political and religious parties.
“The railways has a uniform policy for everyone. Pay and hire a train. Two special trains will be run for JuD congregation but not free of cost,” he said.
In a related development, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has also postponed its call to block Lahore on December 4 on the “request” of the JuD leadership.
“Yes we have changed Lahore’s plan on the request of JuD. The JuD told us that thousands of people are coming to Lahore on December 4 and it cannot afford any hurdle in it,” a senior PTI leader said on condition of anonymity.
Tightening its noose around Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US in June added its affiliates, including the JuD, to its list of designated terror organizations.
India has maintained that Saeed is the mastermind behind Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, conspiracy for which was hatched, planned and executed out of Pakistan. The attacks claimed 166 lives.
Don McKellar says
“Why does Pakistan receive even a penny of American aid?”
Because Pakistan buys from the US Military Industrial Complex, that’s why. Larger hardware in particular. Helicopters, heavy artillery, missiles, and all the parts to keep and maintain them. Much of the aid flows back to US military suppliers. They’ve got a lot of pull in Washington. The perverse thing is that their other military supplier countries don’t give them aid!
Know Thy Enemy says
IMO the explanation you provide is only part of the reason. Another reason is that Muslims are very skilled in taqiyya and few are better at it than Pakistan’s leaders. A few years ago Pakistan’s ISI succeeded in making an Hindu Indian diplomat (to Pakistan) to spy for the ISI. Our own Robin Raphel is accused of doing the same. You can imagine the level of taqiyya skills the Pakis possess.
Mira says
It’ll be back. All the arms sold to Pakistan by the various counties will eventually be used against those very countries and the nationals of those countries. No one is safe anymore.
cs says
Yes, it is a nightmare.
mortimer says
This terrorist is being protected by Pakistan. It is a shame that Pakistan does not support the rule of law, but it shows the delusion of large numbers of Pakistanis. Pakistan needs to be put in the pariah state category and international pressure mounted until it rejoins civilization.
pumbar says
Considering it is nuclear armed that’s not happening anytime soon.
Darren says
Nukes or not we can at least institute a trade embargo on them and cut off aid. Of course if we do this our good friend China will just fill the void. East and West trying to one up each other and gain power and influence in whatever region in the world, and in the process both sides arm armies of batsh*t crazy savages. The innocent people living there suffer as a result. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan ect have no business being sold modern infidel weapons. If it wasn’t for the superior infidel world and their technology these people would still be using bows and arrows. What a horrible situation
America by relying on the petrodollar unable to deal with the issue of islam. The petrodollar and reserve currency give us here in the states a massive advantage over the rest of the world, and allow us to project amazing power, not to mention live beyond our means. I doubt we ever try to honestly address the islam issue as long as we are tied to them like we are economically.
pumbar says
Sadly I think you are correct.
Salah says
“Tightening its noose around Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US in June added its affiliates, including the JuD, to its list of designated terror organizations.”
Stupid, useless and misleading.
These terrorists are nothing more than offshoots of the main Islamic international terrorist organization: the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is the real one that needs to be labelled a terrorist organization. It won’t happen because THEY are the true masters in the Oval Office. The Obama gang are puppets, all they do is follow orders from the Muslim Brotherhood thugs.
Conclusion: The White House, at least under Obama, has become A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION itself.
gp says
Why is this vile murderous bastard still alive? Sounds like a good job for ops.Perhaps he will not see the New Year, inshallah!
Jayell says
You mean they know how to run trains in Pakistan?
Darren says
Why is this superior culture using technology created by dirty kafir’s I’ve always wondered this. They should stick to using technology invented by the superior islamic mind. If they are so superior to us, why do they need our technical know how? I’ve always wondered this, I know somewhere it was actually muslim scientists and inventors who invented everything. Did you know Ahkmed actually discovered electricity centuries before the west did? Well the story goes Ahkmed was riding his camel, he was on his way to go kill innocent women and children like any good muslim should and lightning struck his sword. After this event occured Ahkmed thought if I could harness this power I could kill more infidels than my brother muhammad. You see muhammad his brother always mocked him because he had a much higher kill count than his brother Ahkmed, they had a game you see just like Gimli and Leoglass did in Lord of the Rings on who could kill more orcs.
Anyway after Ahkmed meditated on the matter by banging his head against the ground 5 times a day he found the answer to electricity. If this actually happened why wasn’t the islamic world using electricity centuries before the infidel world? Glad you asked it’s because just as he was about to impart his knowledge of electricity to the world an evil jew jealous of the intellectual superiority of muslims decided to kill Ahkmed simply because even at that time the evil jews were a part of a vast conspiracy to keep the muslim world enslaved. I am glad I could share this factual story on this forum, by doing so I now run the risk of the Reptillian Rabbi’s from Remulak tracking me down and silencing me. I just felt compelled to get the information out there since the amazing scientific community in the muslim world never gets credit for anything, as evidenced by their advanced space programs.
Jayell says
“I just felt compelled to get the information out there since the amazing scientific community in the muslim world never gets credit for anything, as evidenced by their advanced space programs….” Yes, I believe that the wonderful people on that subcontinent do actually have space programmes of various sorts, with all the know-how nicked from the filthy kuffar or the nasty Imperialist Brits or the evil Americans, afforded by not having to pay for all the initial research, paying their scientists cheapskate salaries and scrounging off the rest of the world to support their poor and destitute whilst they swagger around the world stage flashing ‘their’ technological goodies and their grossly greedy multimillionaires (who daily walk past their malnourished fellow citizens in the gutters because they’re the wrong ‘caste’) buy up what they can in the West because they need an escape route because they basically realise that, at the end of the day, they couldn’t organise an alcoholic festivity in a distillery. And whilst we’re talking about space programmes, anyone know the latest about the Indian Mars lander? It’s just that we didn’t hear anything about it before it actually ‘landed’ (very unusual for them!) and it since seems to have disappeared.
Darren says
No I didn’t even know about that, and I am a big space lover. I’ve been following the European rover that landed on that asteroid, some amazing stuff. I wish we humans could quit trying to kill each other long enough to put our collective brain power together and find a way to make space colonization and exploration truly possible. Some of our greatest minds are wrapped up in creating the next gen weapon system instead of the next gen space engine. I guess we will always be trying to kill each other in one form or another, then you add in nation states vying for power and that just adds gasoline on a fire. I am still angry that NASA gets involved with muslim outreach what nonsense.
Western Canadian says
On a site dedicated to drawing attention to the threat of islam…… you babble like a jackass, and take weird and nasty pot-shots at India…. You are on the wrong site, and very, very weird. At best.
shiva says
pakistan will sell its nuks to other islamic brother state very soon,,,and we know what will happen then…better bomb them now
Mark says
If we know where this guy is going to be speaking, maybe a couple of drones should fly off-course…..