Rahmat Ali’s Impossible Dream ( Pakistan )

(The Post is influenced By the writing of Sir Cam Cambridge, UK)

When Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah bid farewell to Delhi and arrived in Karachi on August 7, 1947, he confessed to his ADC, “Do you know, I never expected to see Pakistan in my lifetime.” Pakistan was a dream — a Cambridge student’s dream at that. When the idea was first proposed it was labeled “chimerical and impracticable”. Student follies, however, have a habit of sometimes becoming reality. Pakistan was one “student’s scheme”.

Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Cambridge University law student, initiated the movement for Pakistan by issuing the pamphlet Now or Never, or the Pakistan Declaration, on January 28, 1933 from 3 Humberstone Road, Cambridge. To make the claim more representative he had the document signed by three other students, none of whom was at Cambridge.

Calling Rahmat Ali “a historical figure and a seminal thinker”, Pakistan’s eminent historian KK Aziz acknowledges in Rahmat Ali: A Biography: “He was the first to think of a sovereign status for the Muslims of India, to prepare a well-defined plan for this, to organise a movement for advancing the cause, and to mount a proper campaign for preaching to the unconverted.”
And in addition he also came up with the anagram “Pakistan”. Jinnah’s biographer, Stanley Wolpert, has written that Rahmat Ali issued a “massive quantity of strange religio-political pamphlets and letters.”

According to Aziz Beg, another biographer of Jinnah, Rahmat Ali’s ideas stirred the young and inspired the “growth of Muslim political consciousness throughout India”. Wolpert says that Jinnah chose to ignore Rahmat Ali, but “He (Jinnah) would not, however, be able much longer to ignore the political demand of Rahmat Ali’s obviously well-funded movement sponsored from the heart of Cambridge.”

Both Jinnah and Rahmat Ali arrived in the UK in November 1930. Jinnah, the brilliant lawyer from Bombay, soon bought a house in Hampstead and pursued his legal career and attempted, without much luck, to enter parliament. The young Rahmat Ali went to Cambridge and commenced his bar-at-law in London.

In 1933, when ‘Now or Never’ was issued, Jinnah was aged 57, while Rahmat Ali was 36.
Jinnah had become disillusioned and had lost hope for India when Rahmat Ali started his youthful agitation for Pakistan. When Rahmat Ali discussed the Pakistan idea with Jinnah in the spring of 1933, Jinnah called it an “impossible dream”. When things didn’t work out as he expected in London or perhaps he simply got bored leading the life of an English gentleman, Jinnah returned to India in 1934 to take up the leadership of the All-India Muslim League.
By 1940 the League had got nearer to the Pakistan idea by adopting the famous Lahore Resolution. However, it did not mention the word Pakistan. Jinnah himself did not use the word Pakistan until the early 1940s. Once Jinnah took up a case, it was a certainty that he’d win. As far as Pakistan was concerned, Jinnah was a late starter. But once the single-minded barrister had picked up the Pakistan file, it was only a matter of time before the country would be established. August 14, 1947 came soon enough.

For Jinnah it was a case of “Better a moth-eaten Pakistan than no Pakistan”. Rahmat Ali, the visionary, found this difficult to accept. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre write in Freedom at Midnight, “The man who had first articulated the impossible dream of Pakistan spent the day of 14 August alone in his cottage at 3 Humberstone Road [he was actually there only as a student in the academic year 1932/33]... His dream belonged to another man now, the man who scorned it when Rahmat Ali had first begged him to become its champion.”


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choudhary_Rahmat_Ali

Diverting the nation’s attention. Pakistani Media

Yet the nizam-e-adl wasn’t enforced and the media of Pakistan was strongly supporting the law by declaring it the will of the people of SWAT and Malakand agency and supported the nizam-e-adl. The stance of the NWFP government was over confident at that moment and they were continuously supporting the soofi mohammed as a guarantor and shacked hands with the Taliban’s with a treaty that they wont resist armed force and give up arms after enforcement of Nizam-e-adl. Media was pro these talks and showed a strong support for the treaty between government of Pakistan and a banned outfit TTP.

But the situation became critical when the TTP (Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) refused to give up arms and continued their strategy for capturing as much as land in the name of nizam-e-adl. The treaty became broken and Taliban stepped out of malakand and killed people and challenged the writ of the government and the whole nation asked for an operation against Taliban’s.

The Armed forces Pakistan approach’s the insurgence areas of NWFP affected by Taliban and started an operation against them and whole nation supported this act by the armed forces against Taliban’s. According to the sources above 700 miscreants got killed in the operation and millions of people migrated from swat to different save areas of NWFP.As a common outcome of every operation for the sovereignty of Pakistan.

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR is airlifting tonnes of additional emergency supplies to northwest Pakistan to help cope with the unfolding humanitarian disaster there The fighting has sparked a civilian exodus from the former tourist destination. In recent days 360,000 people have left their homes and in all about 500,000 are expected to flee, joining about 600,000 people displaced earlier from Swat and other areas . not only from UNHCR the whole nation is supporting the swat effected people and tents is being provided to the people and food and rest of the things as well.

At first the media supported operation against Taliban’s and condemned activities of Taliban’s. But when people get affected of the operation and start migrating from the effected areas of NWFP , first media started asking for aid and help for people of swat but on the other hands condemning the operation under the table. Yellow journalism is being proved and some anchors are portraying it bad bad and bad. Accusing the armed forces for the situation of Muhajir camps and declaring the operation in swat not in favor of the people.

The media is again changing its motive like they changed on Lal Mosque dispute and now again blaming the armed forces for lack or administrative issue’s in muhaijir camps and by criticizing the army showing the whole nation what is really happening there in muhajir camps people are suffering things which is true in fact but this own media yelled when the Taliban’s were coming into other parts of the country and asked the Army to take an immediate action against Taliban this double standard journalism is leading country no where but in turmoil and some yellow journalist are now again diverting the attention of the nation from Taliban’s to the people who got effected of this operation and by doing that they are derailing national spirit of the nation against Taliban’s.

Burqa Terrorist Bailed and welcomed.

Another surprising event took place after nizam-e-adl regulation. It seems like Pakistan government has started changing its policies regarding terrorism and militancy just after nizam-e-adl acceptance. Pakistan’s supreme court has bailed a Mastermind of lal mosque dispute Maulana aziz on Wednesday granted bail to the deposed chief cleric of Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, who was captured two years ago during a bloody siege. Aziz had siege the lal mosque and confronted the armed forces of Pakistan in which his brother got killed. Challenged the writ of the government and killed many army officers as well.

The Government forces besieged and stormed the mosque in July 2007, Killing more then 100 militants of al-qaida and different militant organization as they were allegedly holed up inside the building and an adjacent girls school. When he saw that he has now no time to have some settlements with Government as the Government had given them chances to give up, and surrender, he tried to escape along with 4 more girls of madarrsa and was arrested wearing a burqa.

The supreme court of Pakistan has released on surety bond worth 200,000 rupee’s. he was accused of abetting the seizure of a children’s library near the red mosque. The mosque operation unleashed a wave of revenge suicide attacks across Pakistan that has left more then 1,850 People dead. Militants said to be loyal to the Red Mosque have been blamed for some of those attacks, especially a number of blasts in Islamabad, although most have been attributed to Pakistani Taliban rebels

MQM's Stands Firm.

MQM shows no fear and is now a days openly drawing attention of the people of Pakistan, media and other political allies on creeping talibanisation . MQM the only political party criticized and walked out of the parliament in protest. They said they aren’t against Islam as they are Muslims as well. But according to constitution of Pakistan there cant be 2 judicial law in Pakistan. And the current constitution isn’t against Islam. Their recent press conference on Nizam-e-adl is not shocking to the liberal forces of Pakistan including the human rights, civil society and other political parties representative. Other political parties are restricted to show their concerns but we have heard many individual voices throughout the whole Pakistan people are not in favor of this Nizam-e-adl.

People are a bit scared of talibans as TTP Spokesman Haji Muslim khan has threatened parliamentarians indirectly. But MQM stands firm on their rules and regulations. No fear to religious extremism and no shariya, which belongs to only Hanifi laws of islam. As there are many other sects, which have their own beliefs and practices.

The parliament has accepted TTP demand by allowing Nizam-e-adl . Militants who has killed policemen in Lahore and which are involved in suicide bombing mosques and killing torturing people who are muslims as well and several other cases. It was declared nizam-e-adl won’t be imposed till true peace comes in swat and till talibans wont give up weapons.

Despite of the Manawa attacks and several suicide attacks on Mosques, gatherings and Armed forces of Pakistan the so called liberal political parties like PPP, ANP, PML-N and PML-Q has given support to this nizam-e-adl in Malakand division, swat and its nearby region. And has lost support of the liberal voters of nation. ANP has revoked its manifesto and went against the teachings of Ba’cha khan of never surrender in front of ill and bad. So is for the PPP their leader Mohtarma baynazeer Bhutto said there are people in Tribal areas that are responsible for insurgency in Pakistan and she said she wouldn’t tolerate these militants creating insurgency in Pakistan. Nawaz Shareef connections with Al-Qaida and taliban is not hidden with anyone is still continue with Zia’s strategy of making Afghanistan 5^th province and has support to these militants and talibans.

Yesterday attack on charsaddah after nizam-e-adl in swat is a question itself. Agencies recovered body and the person got arrested is from swat. Yesterday Soofi mohammed spokesman said taliban has given up arms. But the TTP spokesman denied to give up arms and declared that they would prolong this movement to other parts of Pakistan and arms is prestige of Muslims.

MQM’s growing support in Pakistan against Talibanization is increasing day by day. Their liberal politics for the people of Pakistan suits to the environment of prosperity and development. They have pointed out very important points of the future of Pakistan if we will allow these militants taking over our areas in the name of islam. There are various examples in islam that Our prophet peace be upon him and his campaignions never imposed islam and shariya by force. A common moderate muslim wont accept talibans forced islam . Islam is what Mohammed peace be upon has preached. Not what soofi mohammed and baitullah mehsud has imposed by guns and shells.

Anti Islam Resolution (nizam e adal)

It was quite shocking when I came to know that a Nizam e Adal Resolution was passed in Parliament without any discussion and debate on it. It tooks no time and the resolution was passed. Now their are some questions, what was the need of this resolution. Making an agreement with those talibans who never accpeted Pakistan's Islamic rules and Laws, and by passing this resolution our national leaders proved that the Islamic system we were following from past 62 years was wrong and the self enforced laws and regulations which are introduced by these religious extremists are right.
First of all, if these extremists are really a well wisher of Muslims, then why they do bombing on shrines of Muslim Saints, why did they blew the shrine of Rehman baba and now a days more than 300 shrines are locked up beacuse of the threats given by these extremists. According to them, only those who belong to a particular sectarian belief are muslims and all others who belong to any other sectarian belief are non muslim and killing them is Jihad.
Suicide bombing in Imam Bargahs is an open proof of this all. People are migrating from Tribal areas to other places and these extremists are following them to others parts of the country also, and our government is so afraid that it accept a fake sharia Resolution and giving these extremists a full charge to decide who is muslim and who is not.

People of Pakistan should now realize that the religious extremism is the real threat to the soviergnity of Pakistan and for the image of Islam in entire world.
Leaders of ANP, PPP, Jamat e Islami, PML-N all are either afraid of them or they have been offered a heavy fruits for this all. Its quite obvious that passing a resolution without even reading it is senseless, and even the people of Pakistan who have been blinded in the favour and love of their leaders are shocked and clue less with this unpopular decision.

The Real Shariya , Angel Talibans And Their Modern Supporters.

From hours I was thinking about a question continuously disturbing me . Flogging video of a 17 year old girl surfaced on Pakistani electronic media and whole nation started finding answer is it the real shariya? So the question in my mind wasn’t different at all.

Should I agree what Maulana madoori said while he addressed loudly on 1970 at gulberg that if jamat-e-islami would have a chance to rule the country they would not impose hijaab by order. Or I should believe what Maulana soofi mohammed said the Democracy is totally against Islamic rules and Shariya. with whom's Shariya I should be agreed and satisfied. As the new Ameer of Jamat-e-islami has forgotten his own leaders statements and supported Soofi Mohammed who has declared democracy against Shariya and against Islam. I want to ask Munawar Hassan and the most known journalist of Pakistan who is fighting case of talibans in favor of them Ansaar abasi. Who is Alim Maulana madoodi or Soofi mohammed?

Maulana Soofi mohammed Statement against democracy is published on recent jamiat literature with bold lines. It seems like that the ideology of jamiat itself has changed. It has become more violent as muanwar hassan accepted that they are training people in Karachi for jihad and they want to help jihadi organization throughout the hold world.

Taliban supporter’s hypocrisy is something to be noticed. They are justifying attacks and declaring it revenge of drone attacks in swat and its nearby regions. Talibans are Good they had a good and the most dignified government in Afghanistan most peaceful most loving in fact they have got each and every good activity munawar hassan stated. TTP spokesman Haji muslim khan has already accepted that dispute has happened in swat and rules are not only for men. And it’s according to Shariya and also challenged any Alim to debate on the issue. If they video is fake there should not be an agreement of Flogging according to the shariya rules. And the statement rules are not only for men. Despite of that some media person’s are supporting and declaring the dispute fake due to some hidden agenda.

Taliban came in Afghanistan we were delighted. They came in FATA we were relaxed. They arrived in Swat we were still satisfied. They take over Deer and Bunair we didn’t noticed that as well. Now suicide bombings in Islamabad and Lahore has started and we will be satisfied in it as well. People from seven thousand miles are coming to fight talibans . They will be killed by talibans and America will loss. America has a habit to loss. Where ever they have gone have lost wars. If they will come to Pakistan we will defeat them people like munawwar hassan , Imran khan , Baitullah mahsood and Mullah umer would have this perception.

If the video is really fake then why there was even a single justification by talibans ? 1^st We punishes women's in rooms. 2^nd rules are not only for men 3^rd it’s a Islamic rule 4^th we can have a debate on the issue 5^th it was before the peace treaty 6^th the story suddenly changed its fake. The video become fake. The girl who is shouting is fake. The talibans holding hands are fake .The justification of Haji muslim khan is fake, Everything is fake but Talibans are angel.

see i still have a question

Champion Kidnaper.

Critics isn't one of my hobbies but people think my critic on different issue is something unnecessary for the society. But Criticism is a part of speech and people has yet not realized what really freedom of speech means.

Well this isn’t reason I am writing this blog . Today morning I heard in the new’s that after politician’s sportsmen have also started a campaign to defame the country’s charm. A Former Karate Asian champion from murdan and swat was arrested and the act was kidnapping the high profile merchants of Kharadar Karachi.

The abducted four people including two cloth merchants were recovered in a joint operation carried out by Anti-Violent crime cell and CPLC, The cloth merchants were abducted from khayaban-e-shehbaz DHA on March 14.2009 and demanded a ransom of RS 50 million for their release. Which became RS 5 Million in the end with a threat if there will be no money provided the abducted merchants would be slaughtered. Imran’s father Haji Zakir Rangeela president of katiana memon jamat is a known Personality. And the case was registered at gizri police station and AVCC is now investigating case.

Dispute like kidnapers from swat in Karachi can be alarming to the law enforcement agencies in Pakistan. Now these agencies should have a wide look whatever has happened in current and past do they have some links with the frontier or not?. A Champion turned Kidnapper in Pakistan is a slap on the faces of those who think there isn’t an extremism and criminal activity in SWAT. There should not be any doubt in any person’s mind that Swat and region of Northwest frontier province has become an institute of criminology and promoting extremism for any militancy.

Leader's Of Pakistan

Politics has become Pakistan national sport. Hockey seems like past and cricket is almost impossible in the current situation in Pakistan. So Pakistani leaders has become player’s, Pakistan is a Ground and we all nation is crowd and we are giving them a big round of applause in every round. But what’s the reality? This reckless game of time wasting and making the nation cry in fact has forced the people of Pakistan to sell their body parts and sometimes their own children’s as well. There no foul no lbw no green nor red card for these player when they win’s they become presidential office bearer’s and other does long march’s because he failed to have that seat.

Even knowing that the economy is falling rapidly and the border’s of Pakistan isn’t save anymore. A hundred of drone’s attack is been done inside Pakistan. No doubt there are extremist and terrorist hiding in the save heaven inside Pakistan but why our own government isn’t taking any actions against them by their own. I found a reason which Is lack of Political will of our leaders. No leader is agreed to compromise with other leader. They are more tensed and curious for their own cases and review petition’s against disqualification.

Nawaz Shareef former prime minister of Pakistan is now a day’s bit relaxed as the long march has finally ended and government has accepted to have a review petition against disqualification of shareef brother’s.

If Chaudry iftikhar the chief justice of Pakistan is today on seat is because of Shareef brothers. It was never possible that he would be reinstated without political support of Shareef’s. The Supreme Court decision on shareef’s review petition is a question mark itself. The case has challenged the integrity of the courts.

A leader is required to this nation, once there was a nation is search of a land. Today we have land but not a nation to choose a right leader for them self. A man having Swiss accounts and billions of dollars cannot represent middle and poor class masses of this country. Even thinking that would be absurd. How can this is possible.

The mayor of Karachi can be example to the people of Pakistan that an ordinary guy can transform a ordinary city to a mega city just will and a good leadership is required. The prosperity of Karachi has something to do with the right leadership, a leader is not someone who just walks into your doors and asks for your vote. A leader is a Teacher who guides the nation gives it a will whoms job is to guide a way to the prosperity and development to the organized and civilized society.

Mr Altaf Hussain has always talked about the national unity and in the greater interest of the people of Pakistan. He is alarming the nation of every fear, which Pakistan would have to face in future. If there would be no national politics He is the only leader of Pakistan whoms politics and leadership is leading a part of Pakistan to a prosperous, developed, educated and the most civilized Pakistan.

Another woman killed over honour

Twenty six year old Quratul Ain eloped from her house six months ago, marrying the person with whom she intended to spend her entire life with. However, her dreams fell short when she was shot thrice in the name of honour.

The rental house where the deceased along with her husband took shelter in is located in the Gulshan-e-Ghazi within the jurisdiction of Malir City Police Station. Quratul Ain was killed in this ‘shelter’ house at around 3:00 am on Sunday when two armed men knocked on her door. Her husband was in the shower at the time; hearing the knocking she opened the door. “She recognised them and tired to flee but the men shot her thrice in her back,” SHO Jehangir Maher told Daily Times. The culprits easily fled the scene when the deceased’s husband Sheraz came out from the bathroom after hearing the sound of bullets and Quratul Ain’s screams.

Not only did her dreams come to an end but her husband’s as well. He helplessly watched his wife take her last breaths in front of him. It is pertinent to mention here that this is the second incident of honour killing in the last seven days. Earlier, on February 22, Elahi Bux surrendered himself after brutally killing his elderly sister Shehla Bibi in the name of honour within the jurisdiction of Korangi Industrial Area Police Station.

Quratul Ain’s body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, however her husband took it away without legal formalities and an FIR No 48/09 was registered against the two unidentified men on behalf of Sheraz. The couple were Iranian Balochis; they met a long time ago and gradually fell in love. The deceased used to visit her aunts house located in Salaar Goth, close to Sheraz’s house. After Quratul Ain’s family engaged her to a relative, the couple decided to elope and get married in court. Maher further said that it is clear that the killing of the woman was done in the name of honour and added that the couple was being threatened by relatives of the deceased, who had disowned her after she eloped. The officer also said that the woman was not pregnant and no arrests were made.

Mehdi Hasan & Bounced Cheque of Shehbaaz Sharif.

A few weeks back the much acclaimed ghazal singer Mehdi Hasan fell critically ill and was admitted to Agha Khan Hospital for extensive treatment. Many people shared their passion for this gazal maestro to an extent that a few government dignitaries offered financial assistance to the ailing singer.

It is being reported that the President Asif Zardari and the chief minister of Sindh have provided Rs1 million and Rs250,000, respectively, for the treatment, while a cheque for Rs500,000 that was received from the Punjab government after the then chief minister Shahbaz Sharif visited Mr. Hasan at the hospital could not be cashed due to the imposition of the governor’s rule in the province. In the aftermath of these events, the bounced cheque did go through but during the time being Mehdi Hassan’s son was told to meet with the governor of Punjab [Salman Taseer] to ‘sort out the matter’

Arif Hasan, one of the sons of Ghazal Hasan said ‘My family, which has exhausted even its ‘rainy day securities’, is now badly failing to foot the treatment bills, we still have to pay an amount to the tune of about half a million rupees to the hospital on account of accommodation and treatment” that is in addition to meeting other expenditures incurred on Khan Sahib and his family

Its very sad to hear that the politics of our country had a direct impact on the workings of our government to have yet again failed to support our national hero’s. It is my genuine sense of sorrow that if our government cannot help, then might the people of Pakistan take matters into our own hands and help this family out of this crisis

Russian Support To The Muslim World.

BRUSSELS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday there was no proof that Iran is try to develop a nuclear weapon and urged the West to respect and reach out to the Islamic republic.

"There is no proof that Iran even has decided to make a bomb," he told the Brussels Forum conference, alongside EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who on behalf of world powers has led talks to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Lavrov said the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was best placed to monitor Iran's activities and establish whether it might try to covertly develop a weapon under the guise of a civilian programme.

"As long as the IAEA works in Iran, the IAEA monitors all these centrifuges which produce low enriched uranium for the fuel purpose" real concerns it may develop a bomb could be allayed, he said.

Uranium enrichment is used to make fuel for a nuclear reactor, but at highly refined levels it can serve to produce the core of an atomic weapon.

"To change it to the weapon grade uranium you need to do manipulations which would be immediately known by cameras," Lavrov said.

His comments came just after US President Barack Obama issued a video message to Iran, offering to open a new chapter in relations with the Islamic Republic. The two nations have not had diplomatic ties since 1980.

"Iran must be engaged as a constructive part of the solution and not of the problem," Lavrov said.

"It's negotiations, it's respect and it's engagement of Iran in all the areas ... including security dialogue with Iran on all the issues in the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon."

Russia, a member of the United Nations Security Council, has generally resisted a more hard-line approach against Iran taken by former US president George W. Bush and is helping Tehran build a nuclear power station.

Obama’s global image & Pakistan

Balochistan Chief Minister Muhammad Aslam Raisani has said drone attacks in Balochistan will tarnish President Barack Obama’s global image.

“We do not have to panic about published reports about possible drone attacks. I will soon meet the American ambassador to convey our concerns to her. This issue would be brought to the attention of President Asif Ali Zardari and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi as well,” the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.

Raisani also claimed that Taliban leader Mullah Omar is hiding in Kandahar (Afghanistan), and not in Balochistan.

“If we are given any information about the presence of Taliban leaders, we will operate against them ourselves,” he said.

Raisani said he was not present during the meeting between US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson and Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Magsi.

Referring to his efforts as a mediator between the PPP and the PML-N, Raisani said governor’s rule in Punjab would likely end in a few days.

He said former Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif still enjoyed the support of a majority in the province.

No Indian involvement in Lahore attack: Sri Lanka

Colombo: Ending speculations in some quarters in Pakistan, Sri Lanka on Monday firmly said there was "no Indian involvement" in the terror attack on its cricketers in Lahore last week but said the Tamil rebellions could be involved.

"There is no Indian involvement (in the attack on cricketers in Lahore)," Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told reporters.

"In fact, India has been helping us in our fight against terrorism. We have conveyed this to Pakistan," he said, adding that Islamabad investigating the attack has promised "an interim report on the investigation next week".

A team of 12 terrorists ambushed and sprayed bullets and fired rocket propelled grenades at the convoy carrying Sri Lankan players to the Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium. The cricketers were to play the third day of the second and last Test against the host Pakistan Tuesday last week.

Seven players and the team's assistant coach were injured and six Pakistani police officials, who were providing protection to the bus carrying the players, were killed in the attack that shook the entire cricketing world.

Minister Bogollagama, however, maintained Sri Lanka's stand that the Tamil Tiger rebels' involvement in this attack cannot be ruled out.

"We are not ruling out links (of the attack) with the (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) LTTE. The LTTE are known to have links with international terrorist groups. Our initial suspicions are on the LTTE," Bogollagama said.

Sri Lanka's middle-order batsmen Thilakaratne Dilshan, who narrowly survived without injuries in the Lahore terror attack, has said the security cover for the two-match Test series was relatively relaxed when compared to the one-dayers they played in Pakistan a month before.