Resolving Kashmir will not satisfy LeT: Experts

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Mar 13 (PTI) A resolution of Kashmir
dispute between India and Pakistan would no longer satisfy
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the terrorist outfit responsible for
26/11 and attack on Indian Parliament would continue to pose a
serious threat to both India and the western world in
particular the US, top experts have told American lawmakers.
"There is no doubt in my mind that we have to find
ways to resolve the issues relating to Kashmir. But I think
resolving Kashmir is not going to solve the problems relating
to LeT," Ashley J Tellis, senior associate at the prestigious
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told US lawmakers
at a Congressional hearing on Thursday.
"Resolving the Kashmir problem by itself is not going
to remove this threat because the aim of these groups is to
leverage themselves into a position of power inside Pakistan
and to take control," said eminent Pakistani scholar, Shuza
Nawaz, Director, South Asia Centre, the Atlantic Council of
the United States.
Both Nawaz and Tellis were responding to concerns of
the US Congressmen at the hearing if LeT would abandon
terrorism if Kashmir dispute was resolved; given that Lashkar
was initially popped up by the ISI of Pakistan for the
specific purpose of targeting Kashmir and India in particular.
"I always find it interesting that the people
conducting the murder and mayhem (in the Valley) today are not
Kashmiri. The people who actually are deprived of all their
political rights, they are not conducting the murder and
mayhem," Tellis said. MORE PTI