Indian threats prove its failure: Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said India was issuing war threats to Pakistan out of it fear of a certain failure in controlling freedom struggle in Kashmir.

Talking to the media on Friday at Mansoora after the meeting of JI central Shoora, he said Modi had been a war-monger since the very beginning of his political career and his government was busy in poisonous propaganda against Pakistan to cover its failure in solving the problems of poverty, basic facilities and the growing unrest among minorities. He, however, declared that Pakistani nation, in spite of its differences on national issues, stood fully united against India and if India dared make any adventure, it would have to face a befitting reply.

Sirajul Haq said Pakistan today was not the Pakistan of 1965 or 1971. Pakistan now was a recognised nuclear power, he said and added India should keep it in mind that in case of war, the bigger country would have to suffer more losses. He said that India would have to come towards a meaningful dialogue on Kashmir.

He said the JI appreciated the manner Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif represented the nation’s sentiments on the Kashmir issue and said, “We won’t feel shy of appreciating that.” He said India should not have any misunderstanding and if it made a blunder this time, it would face nothing except destruction. Therefore, it was in India’s own interest to hold meaningful talks with Pakistan on Kashmir, and the Kashmiri leadership should also be included in the talks. 

He said that India had failed to crush the Kashmiris’ spirit of liberation through brute force and repression and every new day in held Kashmir dawned with more humiliation for it.  He noted that even the sane elements in India were also demanding of New Delhi to pull out it troops from Kashmir. He said the chief justice of the Indian Supreme Court had remarked that India had lost it case in Kashmir. He said that Pakistan-India talks at present should be confined to the Kashmir issue and the maters of trade and cultural troupes and the mango and Sari diplomacy should be stopped.

Sirajul Haq said the JI Shoora had also reviewed JI’s Corruption-Free Pakistan campaign and had resolved to continue the drive till every penny of the plundered wealth was recovered and the plunderers were sent behind bars. He said the government attitude so far clearly indicated that the rulers were not ready to initiate any step against corruption and some of the opposition leaders were also with the government on this issue.

However, he said, the nation was determined not to tolerate the plunderers of the public money any more.

He said an ex-chairman of NAB had said that corruption to the tune of Rs 4,380 billion was taking place in the country annually. However, he said the nation wanted to see the criminals behind bars. He said the JI wanted a completely ruthless and transparent accountability in which not only the prime minister but Sirajul Haq was subjected to ruthless Ehtisab. He said all those who had secured heavy bank loans and then swallowed these also deserved to be arrested and the written off loans be recovered from them.

Sirajul Haq said the JI would hold conferences against corruption at the provincial level and stage a sit-in in Faisalabad on September 30.

To a question on Karachi situation, Sirajul Haq said it was due to the sacrifices and the resoluteness of the JI workers and leaders in Karachi that the MQM workers were also supporting the resolutions calling for initiating a treason case against Altaf Husain.