Pak-Afghan tensions to benefit India, US: Siraj

SWAT: Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Sirajul Haq has said that confrontation between Pakistan and Afghanistan would only benefit India and the US.

Addressing a ceremony marking the Khatm-e-Bukhari at Balogram in Swat area, he said that tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan were not in the interest of both countries. He further added that both countries had no option but to have close and friendly relations. He also added that the present tension on the Pak-Afghan border was the result of faulty policies of the rulers in Islamabad.

Sirajul Haq said that millions of people were facing numerous problems these days only because of their deviation from the teachings of the Quran and the Sunnah. He said: “For the last seventy years, the country had been plundered by the political pundits. It was due to the policies of these people that Pakistan was facing serious threats at ideological and geographical borders and the masses were suffering from unemployment price hike and lawlessness.”

He pointed out that the offshore companies were owned by those who had been graduated from the modern educational institution. “These were the people who had plundered the public wealth with both hands. No religious scholar or madrassah student had been named in the Panama Leaks case,” he added.

The JI chief said it was time to rise against the western civilisation which wanted to disgrace our respectable ladies in the name of freedom and women rights. He said the US wanted the Muslims to behave as ‘farm chicks’.

He said that Islam has advised the faithful to revolt against idols and act in an honourable manner. He said that he had failed to understand why the madaris in Malakand division were being harassed.

The JI chief said that the JI was not striving for a new system in the country. “It was struggling for the Islamic system for which this country came into being,” he said.

The JI chief said that the country had an Islamic Constitution and an Islamic law but the ruling elite were trampling these under its feet. He said that the JI would succeed in establishing an Islamic society in the country by implementing the existing Constitution and the law.