JuD claims role in Hasina ouster

Some leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed have claimed that their outfit played a role in last year’s mass anti-government protests in Bangladesh that led to the ouster of PM Sheikh Hasina.

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The claims by JuD leaders — Saifullah Kasuri and Muzammil Hashmi, a UN-designated terrorist – came during their fiery speeches earlier this week. “I was four-year-old when Pakistan was dismembered in 1971. Indira Gandhi had declared that she’d drowned the two-nation theory in Khaleej (Bay of Bengal). We have taken the revenge of 1971,” Kasuri claimed while addressing his supporters in Allahabad, Rahim Yar Khan, some 400 kms from Lahore.

He also admitted that the body of one of his fellows, Mudassar, was cut into pieces in the Indian airstrike on Muridke (JuD/LeT headquarters) on May 7 in response to the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives on April 22.

In his speech in Gujranwala, some 80 kms from Lahore, a few days ago, Hashmi, referring to the Indian leadership, claimed, “We defeated you in Bangladesh last year...”

He was referring to Hasina’s ouster on August 5.