JI asks govt to back Kashmiris in Held Kashmir

NOWSHERA: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq said on Friday the government should shun the policy of silence and extend all-out support to the people of Indian held Kashmir in their just struggle for Independence.

Addressing a congregation at Jamia Masjid in Khairabad in Attack, the JI chief said India must vacate Kashmir as it would not hold Kashmir by force for long. He said that JI would express solidarity with the Kashmiri brethren in the All Parties Conference scheduled for July 29.

Sirajul Haq said the government of Pakistan should have registered a strong protest with the United Nations against the Indian atrocities committed against unarmed and innocent people of Kashmir.

He lashed out at the government for just issuing a routine condemnation statement. “Only condemnation of the Indian atrocities does not absolve the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led federal government of its responsibilities. It should have done more on the international platforms to divert the attention of the world towards the helplessness of Kashmiris in the face of Indian atrocities,” he stressed.

He said India would not allow human rights organisations, including Amnesty International in order to hide the real situation in Kashmir from the world.

Referring to the Panama Papers leaks, Senator Sirajul Haq said that the people of the country would not stay silent on rampant corruption of the ruling class. “Everybody including the current and former rulers of the country would have to face accountability,” he said.

He said he was 100 per cent sure that billions of dollars would be recovered if across-the-board accountability was conducted in Pakistan.

“Health and education sectors can be developed if the corruption money plundered by the rulers was brought back to the country,” Siraj maintained.