Pakistan bans book on LeT - The Caliphate's Soldiers

Hyderabad Deccan News January 05/2012 : Amaryllis has learnt from trade sources that Pakistan has imposed an unofficial ban on the sale and distribution of the recently released book The Caliphate's Soldiers: The Lashkar-e-Tayebba's Long War. The book, written by Wilson John, Vice President, Observer Research Foundation, reveals the close links between the Pakistan Army and the terrorist group. The uncomfortably persuasive denouement of this work is that the ambitious sweep of the LeT's targets of domination through terrorism include, besides India, the Southeast Asian countries in the Indian Ocean, across the Pacific to the US and ultimately Pakistan itself.
The Caliphate's Soldiers debunks many notions about the Lashkar-e-Tayebba (LeT). With relentless research and incisive analysis, the book traces the evolution and growth of this organisation from being considered a merely local group to a global threat. Before the traumatic events of 26/11, not many in the West had heard of this organisation. Those who had, considered it a 'Kashmiri' group comprising Kashmiris operating out of the Indian side of Kashmir, fighting the Indian state for 'freedom'. But the group is based in Pakistan's Punjab and other provinces with close to 2,500 offices spread throughout the country.
The book chillingly documents how the LeT has embedded itself at the very grass roots by its far-sighted and insidious methodology for capturing the minds of the young and the gullible through an elaborate network of schools and colleges. Also, the projection of its parent organisation, the Jama'at-ud-Da'awah (JuD), as a religious welfare organisation has offered the group protection from local and global restrictions and provided it with a deep anchor in society. The LeT and its parent organisation JuD has managed to hoodwink the world by posing as a humanitarian organisation, calling itself Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation.
The ban comes at a time when the LeT and its leader Hafiz Saeed are stepping up their political activities in support of the Pakistan Army and its chief, General Ashfaq Kayani. At such a crucial time it would probably not work in the Pakistan Army's favour to have a book that documents how it worked in collusion with the LeT in the Mumbai attacks and terror in Kashmir. The evidence in the book is damning as it shows how despite numerous assurances by Pakistan of clamping down on Let's offices and training camps, Baitul Mujahideen, where the Mumbai attackers were initially trained, is today in use by the security forces.
The political role it has found for itself today, has given the LeT an unbridled freedom to expand its terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan, especially those in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) where recruits are being trained to renew the Pakistan Army's proxy war in Kashmir. Old terrorist training campuses are reopening and new ones are being set up across Pakistan. LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, in the dog house after the Mumbai attacks, in fact has being issuing a call for jihad to settle the Kashmir issue in the past few months from major cities like Lahore and Islamabad.
LeT's growing power and influence in Pakistan today strengthens fears of a major terrorist resurgence in the region as the book, The Caliphate's Soldiers, has forewarned.
The book was officially released by Hon'ble Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Mr Farooq Abdullah, in November 2011. Referring to the book, Mr Abdullah said the world must take note of the gravity of the threats posed by the LeT. He said the book was a frightening portrayal of Pakistan Army's alliance with terrorist groups, and must serve as a wake up call for the people of the world.
In his foreword to the book, well-known strategic thinker, Dr Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington DC), said, 'If there were any doubts about the need for urgent concrete action against Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, this volume should erase them all'.



2012-01-05



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