Siraj wants effective policy on Kashmir

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has demanded the prime minister to immediately convene a meeting of national political leadership and announce a national policy on Kashmir issue similar to the NAP against terrorism.

All ties with India must be scrapped forthwith and government announce all-out support to the Kashmiris in line with the national aspirations, he said while delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora masjid. He lauded the party workers and leaders for observing Friday as a countrywide Black Day on his appeal against the Indian army brutalities in Held Kashmir.

Sirajul Haq proposed that delegations comprising representatives from all political parties should be sent to the Muslim as well as western countries for building world opinion on the Kashmir issue. He announced that JI would stage Kashmir Liberation march from the Punjab capital to Wagah border on July 31 to draw the world attention to the worsening situation in Held Kashmir.

He noted that the government reaction to the killings of the innocent Kashmiris in the recent days was not in harmony with the public sentiments. He urged the government and the opposition to guide the nation on the issue. He stressed upon the world community to ensure the grant of the right of self-determination to the Kashmiris in accordance with the UN resolutions in order to avoid a clash between the two nuclear powers.

He said the occupation army in Held Kashmir was adopting novel methods of torture to crush the Kashmiris freedom movement as the eyesight of the Kashmiri youth and children was being snatched by firing rubber bullets in their faces. He said that during last one week, more than 40 people had been martyred and over 2,000 had been wounded of which dozens were in critical condition. The occupation troops were raiding hospitals to attack the wounded while women and children were also being tortured.

He said it was the responsibility of the Pakistani rulers to apprise the world community of the `excesses of the occupation forces and building up world opinion to pave way for the grant of the right of self-determination to the Kashmiris. However, he said that the reaction of the rulers was confined to apologetic statements whereas the entire Pakistani nation stood behind Kashmiris.

He said the rulers were the biggest hurdle in the Islamic system and it was also due to them that the masses remained poor, hungry and deprived of basic facilities of health, education and employment.

He was sure that the masses would not remain silent on the tyranny and exploitation and that Islamic revolution had become inevitable.

He declared that the JI would ensure that the Panama Leaks issue reached its logical end and nobody escaped accountability. He said the JI’s corruption-free Pakistan drive had been a great success and thousands of people across the country were joining it.