Hardliners demand Zardari change Musharraf's Kashmir policy

Islamabad, Sep 8 (PTI) Pakistan will be in "great
trouble" if President-elect Asif Ali Zardari does not change
the policies of his predecessor Pervez Musharraf, which have
"derailed the Kashmir issue", the founder of the outlawed
Lashker-e-Taiba has said.

Militant ideologue Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who now heads
the Jamat-ud-Dawah, called on the people of Pakistan to gather
at the Line of Control to show solidarity with the residents
of Jammu and Kashmir.

The policies of Musharraf "derailed the Kashmir issue,
which was also devalued before the international community",
Saeed told a "Kashmir solidarity" rally he led in the southern
port city of Karachi yesterday.

Pakistan will be in "great trouble" if President-elect
Zardari and his government did not change the policies of
Musharraf, Saeed told hundreds of men who attended the rally
held near the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali
Jinnah.

Saeed recalled Pakistan People's Party founder Zulfiqar
Ali Bhutto's commitment to the Kashmir issue and said Zardari
should send a message to the U.S. that the Pakistan Army is
only for the defence of the country.

Representatives of several religious groups and political
parties also addressed the rally. Hardline Kashmiri separatist
Ali Shah Geelani addressed the gathering on phone from Jammu
and Kashmir.

A growing number of terrorist leaders have re-emerged in
Pakistan after Musharraf's resignation last month to drum up
support for their activities in Jammu and Kashmir. PTI RHL
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