Siraj flays govt silence over executions in Dhaka

LAHORE
Vehemently condemning the executions of pro-Pakistan leaders in Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that there seems no difference between the rulers sitting in Dhaka and Islamabad.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina Wajid and the rulers in Islamabad have no difference over the issue of pro-Pakistani leaders in Bangladesh, he said while addressing a big demonstration on the Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam, to protest against the oppression of the Dhaka regime. The JI Deputy Secretary General and former MNA Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha, also addressed the rally. A large number of women and children attended the rally.
Speaking on the occasion, Siraj said that the government of Hasina Wajid was executing the loyalists of Pakistan while the rulers in this country were silent spectators on that. He said that the youth and the aged people of Bangladesh had sacrificed their lives for this country but the rulers in Islamabad did not bother to raise this issue with the international fora that showed their indifference and their deviation from country’s ideology. He said the ruler’s talk of a liberal Pakistan was tantamount to rubbing salt into the wounds of the martyrs of Kashmir and Bangladesh. He said that those who had been executed in Bangladesh had not been fighting for power. Love of Pakistan and its ideology was part of their faith and they had offered their lives for the love of this country.
He said that Indian Prime Minister Modi had stated in Dhaka that he had reached Dhaka from Delhi with the Mukti Bahini to disintegrate Pakistan. He wondered why the Pakistani rulers could not approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Modi and Hasina Wajid for their violation of the tripartite agreement in 1971.
He said that the indifference of the Pakistani rulers to the executions of JI leaders in Bangladesh and the trial of Prof Ghulam Azam and others who had bravely faced trial and hardships in Bangladesh, the present rulers had proved themselves guilty in the eyes of the nation. Had the government taken up the matter with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in time, the lives of some of these people could have been saved. Such a move by the rulers could have proved the rulers’ loyalty to those offering their lives for this country. He said that because of the rulers’ indifference, 45 people had been handed down death sentence while more than 4,000 other people were in jails.
Addressing the gathering, JI Punjab Chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed, expressed the hope that the rulers would end their silence over the oppression going on in Bangladesh. He said that Hasina Wajid was fighting India’s war and said that Islamabad should fight the war of Pakistan and foil the conspiracies against this country.