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Associated Press, Updated: June 21, 2011 18:36 IST / NDTV.
Islamabad: Authorities detained a senior officer serving at Pakistani army headquarters for suspected links with a banned militant group, the army spokesman said Tuesday. The announcement could be an attempt by the military to counter Western suspicions that it tolerates militant sympathizers within its ranks.
Western officials have long suspected some Pakistani military officials, especially ones serving in the army's powerful intelligence agency, of maintaining ties with militant groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Those suspicions have spiked in the wake of last month's U.S. raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an army town not far from the Pakistani capital.
Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Brig. Ali Khan was detained recently for suspected links with Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which he labeled a "proscribed militant organization."
The group itself has officially rejected violence, but many observers say it promotes an intolerant mindset that can ultimately lead to it.
Abbas said the detention shows the army is determined to weed out bad actors, but also stressed that Khan was not linked to the Taliban, which is seen as much more of a threat by the West than Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
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Islamabad: Authorities detained a senior officer serving at Pakistani army headquarters for suspected links with a banned militant group, the army spokesman said Tuesday. The announcement could be an attempt by the military to counter Western suspicions that it tolerates militant sympathizers within its ranks.
Western officials have long suspected some Pakistani military officials, especially ones serving in the army's powerful intelligence agency, of maintaining ties with militant groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Those suspicions have spiked in the wake of last month's U.S. raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an army town not far from the Pakistani capital.
Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Brig. Ali Khan was detained recently for suspected links with Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which he labeled a "proscribed militant organization."
The group itself has officially rejected violence, but many observers say it promotes an intolerant mindset that can ultimately lead to it.
Abbas said the detention shows the army is determined to weed out bad actors, but also stressed that Khan was not linked to the Taliban, which is seen as much more of a threat by the West than Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
Any outfit that preaches and / or practices mass murders of innocent people is a scourge of Society, irrespective of what name it goes by!
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