US wants to trigger war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, says JI chief

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has expressed his concern over the growing confrontation in the Gulf region and said the US and Zionist powers were once again trying to make the Muslim world a new battlefield for them.
Delivering the Friday sermon at Mansoora mosque, he said the protection of the holy land and Haramain Sharifain was the duty of not Saudi Arabia alone but of the entire Muslim world, and the Muslims all over the world were ready to lay down their lives for the security of their spiritual centre. However, he said there was a need for great care and caution besides serious talks.
He said like the Iran-Iraq war, the US now wanted to trigger a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran because such a conflict between the Muslim states would help the enemy powers to sell their arms and ammunition besides taking over the Muslim world’s resources. He said Pakistan should try to cool down the situation in order to foil the enemy designs.
Sirajul Haq said the Muslim world should try to resolve its issues through dialogue and should not provide an opportunity to the forces of kufr to achieve its agenda through wars between different Muslim states. He said the US and Israel had embarked on a plan to trigger a war between Arab states to sell their weapons and weaken the Muslim world. The situation demanded that the leadership of the Muslim world sat down and resolved their issues through talks and mutual understanding.
On the national issues, the JI chief said all the problems of the country and the nation could be solved with the enforcement of hariah. He claimed Quaid-e-Azam had on more than 100 occasions stated that the Holy Quran would be the Constitution of Pakistan and the Khilafat would be the model for the Islamic state. As such, those talking of secularism were violating the Constitution. He said Pakistan is an Islamic democratic state and a distinction between religion and non-religion or religious and secular was a wrong interpretation of the Constitution.
Sirajul Haq said during the last 68 years, Pakistan had been ruled by those who had secured jagirs from the British for betraying the nation and for accepting British slavery. He said the JI was striving for the supremacy of the Constitution and the law.