‘APC to force govt to adopt firm stance on Kashmir’

LAHORE

JI ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has accused the government of not discharging its duties to resolve the Kashmir issue, adding all the champions of human rights are silent on genocide of Kashmiri Muslims by Indian occupation forces in Held Kashmir. 

Addressing the JI central workshop at Mansoora on Thursday, he said rulers’ cowardice was the main hurdle in the liberation of Kashmir. He said the government should have apprised the world community of the recent wave of atrocities of the occupation forces but it failed. Sirajul Haq said JI had requested the government to hold an APC for evolving a common stance on the issue but government did not deem it necessary. 

He said the APC on July 29 in Islamabad would force the government to adopt a firm stance on Kashmir issue while the Azadi march from Lahore to Wagha on July 31, would give a clear message to Kashmiris that they were not alone in their liberation struggle as entire Pakistani nation stood behind them. He said while India was infiltrating terrorists into this country, Pakistani rulers were sending gifts to Modi and the foreign office was silent like graveyard on this issue. 

He said Quaid-e-Azam wanted to send Pak army into Kashmir in 1947 to protect the jugular vein of Pakistan but the army chief, who was a British general, refused to obey his orders and instead showed his loyalty to India. Sirajul Haq said as India had thrust slavery on Kashmiris, the ruling elite in the country was sucking the blood of the masses here. Hypocrite politicians, feudal lords, ‘vaderas’ and capitalists were holding the two hundred million people of the country as slaves and were plundering public exchequer. The political parties had become family clubs. The politicians loyal to US and Britain were holding all political powers in their hands. These people had built empires here and abroad while the man in the street was burdened under foreign and internal debts. These politicians had dismembered the nation on the basis of region and ethnicity.

Rejecting the corrupt system of the elite, Sirajul Haq appealed to the masses to stop feeding the serpents and scorpions, and support JI in its Jehad against corruption and exploitation.

UVAS: University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and Development Action for Mobilisation and Emancipation (DAMEN), Lahore, on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to run a pilot project for development of a pasture for grazing livestock.

UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha and DAMEN Chief Executive Officer Rao Amjad Ali signed the MoU at a ceremony at UVAS City Campus.

Under the MoU, five acres of land within the farming grounds of the UVAS Ravi Campus at Pattoki will be set aside for the development as a pasture for grazing of sheep flock and other livestock. The pasture will be farmed in accordance with the principles of holistic management. About 50 sheep will be selected at the beginning of the pilot project to be grazed on the pasture.The pasture will also be used for the training programmes to be imparted to UVAS students and faculty members as well as smallholder farmers of limited education and professional land managers.

The UVAS VC said that there was much need to support development of smallholder farmers in the rural areas and the efforts for poverty alleviation in Pakistan through development of livestock sector.