LAHOREJI acting ameer Liaqat Baloch has said peace can be restored in Afghanistan only after the foreign troops leave the country and Afghan people are allowed to decide their future by free will. He was talking to a delegation of Afghan officials and leaders which called on him at Mansoora
By our correspondents
July 07, 2015
LAHORE JI acting ameer Liaqat Baloch has said peace can be restored in Afghanistan only after the foreign troops leave the country and Afghan people are allowed to decide their future by free will. He was talking to a delegation of Afghan officials and leaders which called on him at Mansoora on Monday, says a press release. JI acting chief said the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan were brotherly neighbours and linked together through the everlasting bonds of Islam. He said terrorism and subversive activities had brought destruction in both the countries. He said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was under pressure to stop dialogue with Taliban and continue hostilities towards Pakistan. He said the US and Nato had failed in Afghanistan during their thirteen years war imposed on the country on the pretext of doubtful attacks in New York for which Washington accused Taliban regime and Osama Bin Laden without showing any proof or impartial investigations. He said US President Obama’s term was ending and the internal conflicts of the US were creating crises abroad as well. Liaqat Baloch said JI wanted peace in the region on the basis of justice and equality. Earlier, addressing a meeting with a delegation of National Labour Federation, Liaqat Baloch opposed the privatisation of major national institutions including PIA and Pakistan Steel. He said such a decision would tantamount to economic murder of the workers of these institutions. Liaqat Baloch said the government was supposed to protect the national institutions. He said these institutions were a national asset and the government should convene an APC to discuss the matter. He said both PIA and Pakistan Steel had great potential and the government should trust their workers and provide them an opportunity to rejuvenate their institutions. Aafia: JI naib ameer Hafiz Muhammad Idrees said it was a matter of great shame that Pakistan’s distinguished daughter Dr Aafia Siddiqi had been in US jail for the last ten years under fake charges but the government and the Muslim world had done nothing for her release. Addressing the JI workers at Mansoora on Monday, he said US, the so-called champion of liberties and human rights, was subjecting an innocent Muslim woman to all forms of torture while the NGOs and other international bodies clamouring for civil liberties and the prisoners’ rights were silent spectators on this issue. Hafiz Muhammad Idrees pointed out that present rulers in their election meetings had promised to get Dr Aafia Siddiqui released from the US jail but they had done practically nothing in this direction during the last two years. He said a mercy appeal from President of Pakistan to US President Obama could be of great help but added that the rulers were least concerned about Dr Aafia’s release. Meanwhile, JI ameer Senator Sirajul Haq and JI Information Secretary Amirul Azeem condemned the decision of the Board of Directors of national news agency APPC to deprive the APPC pensioners of the 10 per cent raise in pensions announced in the federal budget 2014-15. In a joint statement, they called the federal information minister to immediately look into the matter and ensure that APPC pensioners were given 10 per cent raise announced in the 2014-15 budget besides the 11 per cent raise announced in the budget for the current financial year. They said it was totally unlawful to deny the pensioners of the small raise announced in the budget.
