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| Munawwar announces anti-India drive |
| Saturday, November 14, 2009 By By our correspondent |
| HYDERABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hassan has said the the ‘Go America Go’ campaign of his party was received well across the country and announced that anti-India demonstrations would be staged from Dec 14 to 16. He was addressing the participants of a train march of Jamaat from Sukkur to Hyderabad, which arrived here late on Thursday night.A large number of JI workers and supporters welcomed the train march at the Hyderabad railway station and chanted slogans against the United States and its policies. The JI chief was accompanied by Sindh JI head Asadullah Bhutto and other party leaders while Jamaat leader Mairjulhuda Siddiqui was prominent among the leaders who received the participants at the railway station. Syed Munawwar Hassan said the campaign against the US was aimed at creating awareness among the general public about the US designs and its terrorism, which is being named as the war against terrorism. He described the war against terrorism as war against Muslims and added that government is supporting the US without the consent of the people. He said the government has miserably failed in providing any kind of relief to the people of the country and blamed India for its involvement in stirring the wave of terrorism in the country. Our Khairpur correspondent adds: Earlier, the train march kicked off from the Rohri railway station. Party workers from Khairpur, Sukkur, Ghotki, Shikarpur and other districts of Upper Sindh gathered at the Rohri railway station. Before moving on towards Hyderabad, a protest meeting was held, which was addressed by Jamaat chief Syed Munawwar Hassan, Asadullah Bhutto and others. They said the rulers had surrendered the sovereignty of Pakistan to the US and accepted its slavery. They alleged that Blackwater had hired 150 acres of land in Islamabad in order to occupy the nuclear assets of Pakistan and they were being facilitated by the rulers. They alleged that Kerry-Lugar Act was an attack on the sovereignty of Pakistan. They claimed drone attacks and other atrocities of the US proved that Pakistan was a colony of America. |