Will wage ‘jihad’ to ‘free’ Pakistan rivers from India: Saeed

Hafiz Saeed, on whose head the U.S. has put a bounty of $10 million, claimed "freedom movement" of the Kashmiris is "gaining momentum day by day".

June 25, 2016 06:07 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 05:13 am IST - Lahore

Hafiz Saeed, center, chief of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa. file photo.

Hafiz Saeed, center, chief of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa. file photo.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said he will wage a “war” against India to get Pakistani rivers “freed.”

“We are going to wage jihad [war] against India to get our rivers freed,” Mr. Saeed said, while addressing a gathering of JuD workers in Sialokot district of Punjab Province on Friday.

Mr. Saeed, on whose head the U.S. has put a bounty of $10 million, claimed that “freedom movement” of the Kashmiris was “gaining momentum day by day”.

He said Dukhtran-e-Milat’s head Asiya Andrabi had told him that the situation in Kashmir had “changed” now.

“Asiya Bibi told me by telephone that those who were talking about Independent Kashmir are no more on the scene while young leadership has come forward and it will give a fresh impetus to the freedom campaign,” Mr. Saeed, who founded the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, said. Mr. Saeed said Pakistan should take serious notice of the United States' warnings which have raised the curtain from its “evil designs” against it.

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