Lahore: Even as Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries decide on a possible meeting later this month to discuss new Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), 26/11 mastermind and Jammat Ud Dawa (JUD) Chief Hafiz Saeed has invited India's Home Minister P Chidambaram for a 'composite dialogue.'
Speaking at the biggest ever anti-India jehadi rally in Pakistan on the occasion of annual 'Kashmir Solidarity Day,' Saeed said that P Chidambaram should talk to him rather than going to Islamabad.
"I invite Chidambaram to come and meet me first rather than going to Islamabad come here to Lahore. Our destination is nothing less than freedom, freedom has to be given and if India doesn't give Kashmiris the right to freedom then we will adopt the method which was adopted by Afghans to drive away America and its forces," he said.
Other than India, United States too was a target of Saeed's rant.
"The biggest pagan, America which had been supporting Jews and is now supporting India, has been defeated by Mujahideen in Afghanistan. India must understand that if America couldn't stay for long in Afghanistan, then there is no chance that India will remain in Kashmir forever," said Saeed.
Although Saeed did not own the responsibility for the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, he tried to equate the attacks to the loss suffered by Pakistan during the 1971 war.
"If India can't forget Mumbai attacks, we can't forget East Pakistan (Bangladesh). India's thousand Mumbai like attacks will not be able to equal the loss we faced in East Pakistan."
Saeed stressed that the only solution to problems between India and Pakistan was the "liberation of Jammu & Kashmir, failing which radical groups would resort to the option of jehad."
(With PTI inputs)
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