Gen Raheel’s statement on Kashmir voice of nation: Siraj

ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq on Thursday termed a recent statement of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Kashmir issue voice of the whole nation.
“The statement of the army chief on Kashmir issue is voice of 180 million people of Pakistan. The political leadership, vital institutions and Kashmiris are on the same page on his vital issue,” Sirajul Haq said while addressing a consultative session with the Kashmiri leadership here at a local hotel.
The consultative meeting, which was held to demonstrate unity on Kashmir cause, was attended besides others by AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, ex-AJK prime minister Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan and ex AJK president Ghulam Qadir. Ghulam Muhammad Safi and Muhammad Tahir Masood represented Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at the consultative meeting.
The JI top leader said that his party also appreciates stance of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Kashmir cause but now the time has come that a state policy of the Government of Pakistan on this issue be announced. “This state policy on Kashmir should remain intact regardless of change of the government,” he said.
Siraj said it was responsibility of the United Nations and the international community to make serious efforts for resolution of the Kashmir issue to save the humanity and for the sake of peace in the world and in South Asian region in particular.
He said the Pakistan government should also come forward to call a consultative meeting with leadership from both sides of Kashmir without any delay.
The JI leader said the Pakistan government should also activate its embassies all over the world to highlight the issue in a more effective way and for this purpose Kashmir Desks should be established in these missions. He also observed that Pakistani media was not giving Kashmir issue due coverage which it deserves.
On statement of the incumbent Indian prime minister with regard to India’s role in creation of Bangladesh, Siraj said Pakistan should move the International Court of Justice against this confessional statement.