06 Dec 2002

Pakistan Lets Loose pro-Osama Terrorists
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
["... Before the elections to the National and provincial Assemblies on October 10, 2002, Musharraf ordered the withdrawal of all pending cases in the anti-terrorism courts against the candidates of the six fundamentalist parties, which contested the elections as a coalition, in order to enable them to contest the elections. Similar withdrawal of pending cases under the common law (not for acts of terrorism) against the leaders of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) and Nawaz Sharif's faction of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was, however, not ordered. This enabled the religious fundamentalist parties, which support the Taliban and bin Laden, to win an absolute majority of seats in the NWFP Assembly and score impressive gains in the Pashtun areas of Balochistan. Consequently, the religious coalition has formed the Government in the NWFP and a coalition of the religious fundamentalist parties and the pro-Musharraf PML (Qaide Azam) has taken over power in Balochistan. One of the first acts of this Government in Balochistan (Dec. 3, 2002) was to order the release of all the remaining cadres of the organisations banned on January 15, 2002, who had not been released by the military regime before...."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper560.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
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