Will help ''sister'' Adrabi: Hafiz Saeed

Gujranwala (Pakistan), July 22

Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Toiba leader Hafiz Saeed on Friday said he had received a call from Asiya Andrabi, the founder of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, for his help to resolve what she called “crisis” on the Indian side of Kashmir.

Addressing a rally here, Saeed said: “The way Indian security forces are engaged in bloodshed in Kashmir… My sister Asiya Andrabi cried for 15 minutes and told me over phone: ‘My brothers where are you?’”

“I am telling my sister Asiya that ‘my sister, we are coming'. This act of violence will come to end and nobody can stop Kashmir from becoming independent,” he said.

Saeed further said that he had also received a call from Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani.

 “Few days before his death, Burhan Wani told me over a phone, 'It was my desire to talk with you. Now my desire has been fulfilled and I am waiting for martyrdom',” said Saeed at an event organised to express solidarity with both Andrabi and Wani.

"I want to assure the people of Kashmir that if you are in the field, we are also with you," said the Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader.

He also warned India that this was its last chance to accept separatist Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's four-point formula on Kashmir and to withdraw security forces from the Valley.

 “We have to give a message to India to stop and withdraw forces and accept Geelani's four-point formula immediately, because, this is the last chance, and hereafter, the matter will be decided in the battlefield,” said Saeed during his ‘Kashmir Caravan', a procession he had organised from Lahore to Islamabad.

The caravan, comprising of trucks and buses, stretched for several kilometers, and passed through many cities, including Gujaranwala, Jhelum and Gujarat.

His rallies were attended by federal ministers and religious leaders of various organisations.

Saeed led a call to observe ‘Black Day’ on July 19 in an apparent bid to draw attention to Kashmir.

The US has designated both the Laskkar e Toiba ( LeT ) and the Jamaat ud Dawa ( JuD) as terrorist organisations.

Saeed has also been listed by the UN Security Council's 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee. — ANI