Pakistanis to fight than die thirsty, Siraj warns Modi

LAHORE: The Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, on Friday said that Indian Prime Minister Modi wanted to stop river water flow to Pakistan to convert the country into a desert, and it was to be seen what steps the rulers in Islamabad would take to protect the Indus Water Treaty.

Addressing Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that Modi wanted to plunge the region into war flames and had been threatening to stop river water to the country for quite some time but the rulers had done nothing to foil his designs.

Sirajul Haq warned Modi that the people of Pakistan would prefer to fight than to die thirsty. The JI chief said that Pakistani rulers brought up by the west were out to destroy the Islamic identity of Pakistan. 

He said the people asked for food, but the rulers talked of training them on how to dance. He said the Supreme Court decision to review the Sindh High Court decision banning sale of liquor was incomprehensible.   He said that hundreds of people had died in Sindh and elsewhere in the country by drinking liquor.  Sirajul Haq said it was the constitutional responsibility of the rulers to facilitate the masses in leading their lives in accordance with Islamic teachings.