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Pakistan Deny report on aiding Jundullah

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday rejected a US media report that it was secretly aiding a militant group for
attacks across the border in Iran as “tendentious”. “The Foreign Office takes serious note of the tendentious ABC
News report alleging that a group called ‘Jundullah (Soldier of God)’ was operating from inside Pakistan to carry
out raids across the border into Iran,” said an official statement. It described as an “absurd and sinister
insinuation” that Pakistan was part of a “secret campaign” against Iran. Afp

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\06\story_6-4-2007_pg1_4

Tendentious: Islamabad
Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has denied a report by ABC alleging that "encouraged" by the U.S. the Balochistan-based
Sunni sectarian group Jundullah was using Pakistani territory to carry out raids in Iran.
"The Foreign Office takes serious note of the tendentious ABC News Report alleging that a group called
`Jundullah' was operating from inside Pakistan to carry out raids across the border into Iran and the absurd and
sinister insinuation that Pakistan was part of a `secret campaign' against Iran...."

http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/06/stories/2007040618831800.htm

Media report about aiding anti-Iran militants denied

 ISLAMABAD, April 5: Pakistan on Thursday rejected a US media report that it was secretly aiding a militant group
for attacks across the border in Iran as “tendentious”, the Foreign Office said.  “The Foreign Office takes serious
note of the tendentious ABC News report alleging that a group called ‘Jundullah (Soldier of God)’ was operating
from inside Pakistan to carry out raids across the border into Iran,” an official statement said.  It described as an
“absurd and sinister insinuation” that Pakistan was part of a “secret campaign” against Iran.  

A report on the website of US channel ABC News on Wednesday said US officials had secretly encouraged and
advised a Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for several deadly attacks inside Iran.  It added that Jundullah
comprised members of the Baloch tribe and operated out of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.  The
report quoted Pakistani tribal sources as saying that money for the group was funnelled to its young leader Abd el
Malik Regi through Iranian exiles who had connections with European and Gulf states.  

It quoted Pakistani government sources as saying that the campaign against Iran by Jundullah was on the agenda
when Vice-President Dick Cheney met President Gen Pervez Musharraf in February.  A senior US government
official said groups like Jundullah had been “helpful” in tracking Al Qaeda militants and that it was appropriate for
the US to deal with such groups in that context, the report said. But the Foreign Office denied the report.  “Pakistan
will never allow its territory for carrying out acts of terrorism and violence against any country,” it said.  “Pakistan has
active cooperation with Iran to curb any criminal and terrorist activity by any group, including so-called Jundullah,” it
said.  “Pakistan and Iran enjoy close friendly relations and we condemn any attempt to create misgivings between
the two brotherly countries.” Jundullah recently took credit for a car bomb in Zahedan, capital of the Iranian
province of Sistan-Baluchestan bordering Pakistan, in which 13 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed.  Iran had
summoned Pakistan’s ambassador after the unrest last month and both sides had agreed to tighten border
security.  

Pakistani agents on March 23 recovered three Iranian police who had been kidnapped by the same group and
handed them back to authorities in Iran, while a fourth was believed to have been killed.  A videotape attributed to
Jundullah and aired on Al-Arabiya television on March 8 purportedly showed the men on their knees, while two
masked gunmen stood behind them.  Meanwhile, commenting on the US media report at a press conference in
Islamabad on Thursday, Iran’s consultative assembly speaker Dr Gholam Ali Hadded Adel said the US spared no
effort to put pressure on Iran. He, however, said there was no evidence or reason to believe that Pakistan’s military
establishment was abetting terrorists.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/06/top4.htm

Comments:

Pakistan's double role (two faces) are exposed again.

Pakistan has always played the double game to fool the world community that he is an ally in the war against
terror, but in fact Pakistan herself is the terror and big supporter of Al-qaeda and Taliban Terrorists. How long the
world community can be fooled by Pakistani dictators? (An anonymous reader)