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July 16, 2010 Clip No. 2581

Juma'at-ud-Da'wah Leader in Kashmir Abdul Aziz Alvi: "The Problem of Kashmir Can Only Be Resolved through Jihad"

Following are excerpts from a report on Juma'at-ud-Da'wah in Kashmir, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 16, 2010:

Reporter: The Kashmiri public is pessimistic about the talks being held by the Indian delegation in Pakistan. Hundreds of meetings have been held in recent decades, but with no results.

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Juma'at-ud-Da'wah came to the forefront after the ban on Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks. Juma'at-ud-Da'wah believes that the negotiations are a waste of time, and that Jihad is the only solution. That is what Abdul Aziz Alvi, the leader of the organization in Kashmir, said, when I interviewed him near the city of Muzaffarabad.

Abdul Aziz Alvi: After lengthy negotiations, over the decades, the entire Kashmiri nation – not only the Juma'at-ud-Da'wah – has reached the conclusion that the problem of Kashmir can only be resolved through Jihad. India does not understand anything but the language of force.

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