“So Hamas are terrorists but Kasab was a “gunman”. Well done American media you really call it like it is. *sarcasm*,” Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site, twitter.com.
Kasab, the only militant to have survived the 2008 attacks on the financial capital Mumbai, was hanged in great secrecy early Wednesday morning at Yerawada jail in Pune city.
He was charged for attack on a string of targets that killed 166 people.
India says Kasab was a Pakistani national, something which Pakistan denies.
The execution came just hours after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected a mercy plea by Kasab, who had said he belonged to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
“Gotta hand it to the Govts at the centre & in Mumbai for the mature way they handled this. Shows we can still keep a secret if we need to,” Abdullah wrote in another tweet.
HAMAS
Abdullah, the chief minister of the state which has seen more than two decades of conflict between security forces and rebel militants did not explicitly show his stand on the fresh conflict between Israel and Gaza.
But his tweet appeared to blame the western media of calling the Hamas a terrorist organisation for their own interests.
Hamas or the Ḥarakat al-Muqawamah al-ʾIslamiyyah (Islamic Resistance Movement) in Palestine governs the Gaza Strip after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006.
Israel, the United States and the European Union consider the party as a terrorist organisation and say they support Israel’s recent pounding of Gaza, which has killed at least 130 people in a week, as a matter of self-defence.
(Rakib Altaf/EK/Srinagar)
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