Rulers betrayed Kashmiris, says Siraj

LAHORE:Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said the rulers betrayed the people of Kashmir and they would have to face the wrath of the nation for damaging the Kashmir cause.

The JI chief said Kashmiris had been fighting the case of realisation of actual Pakistan dreamt by its founding fathers for seven decades with their flesh and blood but it was strange that Pakistani rulers were retreating from the seven decades old stance taken by Quaid Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, he said while addressing a meeting of JI central leadership at Mansoora on Monday.

He announced the JI would hold a large Kashmir March in Islamabad on December 22 to put more pressure on the rulers to shun their silence and extend practical support to the besieged Muslims of Indian-Held Kashmir. He added thousands of people from across the country would gather in the federal capital to express solidarity with their brethren who had become virtual prisoners of the Indian forces since August 5—the day Indian government abrogated the special autonomy of the held region and unleashed worst human rights violation on the millions of Kashmiris.

He added that the JI would never leave alone the Kashmris, no matter what the rulers’ actions were. He said the sacrifices of the Kashmiris would soon bear fruit and the dawn of freedom will rise on them.

Senator Sirajul Haq criticised the economic policies of the government, saying the IMF had virtually took over the control of the country’s economy and enslaved the nation. He said the prices of basic commodities had gone out of the common man’s reach but the ministers were issuing non-serious statements about the inflation and were making fun of the poor.

The meeting which was also attended by JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim and Naib Ameer Liaqat Baloch reviewed the arrangements for the march. The participants expressed concern over the silence of the international community and the UN on the human rights abuses in the held valley.

Farewell: A farewell ceremony was held in the honour of Additional Director Computer Bureau Shaheen Khalid at central police office. Officers praised Shaheen Khalid for her services for Police department.

Additional IGP PHP Captain ® Zafar Iqbal said that hard working and honest officers are an asset to the department. He said that working of Police department had been modernised in accordance with the contemporary era.

Addressing the farewell ceremony, he said that as per the vision of IG Punjab, Shaheen Khalid under her supervision achieved the milestone of different modern policing projects which had considerably improved the operational methods and working of Police. Additional Director Computer Bureau Shaheen Khalid thanked the staff for arranging farewell ceremony and said that she always tried to fulfill her duties with honesty and diligence whereas cooperation and supervision of IG Punjab had always been with her in launching new projects.