By: PrajaktaMohite
A top Baloch leader has written to US Secretary to declare Pakistan’s former dictator Pervez Musharraf as a global terrorist days after Musharraf stated that he is the biggest supporter of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Naela Quadri Baloch, the head of the World Baloch Women Forum, has written a letter to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking that Pervez Musharraf should be declared a global terrorist.
Last week, Musharraf, who was facing treason charges, said: “I am the biggest supporter of LeT and I know they like me and JuD also likes me.”
He also said that he likes Hafiz Saeed, a designated terrorist and have met him.
In her letter, Baloch said Musharraf’s statement on LeT and JuD ‘redirects our attention to the centrality of the Pakistani state to global terrorism.’
“The former dictator, who callously butchered Baloch (a reference to the people of the Pakistani province of Balochistan) using weapons supplied by the US, should also be brought to book for crimes against humanity.
Baloch has asked the US to forbid the use of its weapons in Balochistan, and freeze Musharraf’s ‘assets and interests’ in America “and elsewhere.”
He believes that those who stay in Pakistan, burn Pakistan’s flag and raise anti-national slogans deserve to be butchered. Thousands were tortured and killed under his watch,” she expressed in the letter.
In May 2008, the United States Department of the Treasury designated Saeed as Terrorist and the Jamat- ud-Dawah (JuD) was declared as a foreign terrorist organisation by the United States in June 2014.
Musharraf also said that he was in favour of action in Kashmir. “I was always in favour of action in Kashmir and of supporting Indian Army in Kashmir. They are the biggest force (LeT), India got them declared as terrorist by partnering with the US,” he said.
Since he left Pakistan in March 2016, Musharraf is staying in Dubai. He faces several charges, including treason for abrogating the Constitution and declaring the emergency in 2007.
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