A powerful militant group Monday denied links to a Pakistani arrested in the US on charges of providing support to the outfit blamed for the deadly Mumbai attacks in 2008. Jubair Ahmad, 24, stands accused of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), designated by the US as a foreign terrorist organisation, and then lying about his involvement to investigators.
"The arrested Pakistani young man Jubair Ahmed has never been associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba," the group's spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. The FBI learned that as a teen Ahmad received "indoctrination and training from LeT while he lived in Pakistan," and that from the United States he communicated with the son of the group's founder Hafiz Saeed.
"Linking of Jubair to Lashkar by US investigators is part of Indian propaganda that has been unleashed in the US with an aim to malign Kashmir's freedom struggle and to hoodwink the international community," Ghaznavi said. He said Lashkar's network was only confined to Kashmir and the group had "no global agenda." According to an unsealed affidavit by an FBI special agent, Ahmad produced and posted a propaganda video for LeT "glorifying violent jihad" in 2010, some three years after he arrived in the United States with his parents and two younger brothers.
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