LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that India was issuing threats to Pakistan out of her fear of a sure defeat in Kashmir.
Talking to the media at Mansoora on Friday, he said that Modi had been a war monger from the very beginning and his government was busy in poisonous propaganda against this country to cover its failure in resolving the problems of poverty, providing basic facilities to the masses and the growing unrest among the minorities.
The JI chief however declared that the Pakistani nation, in spite of its differences on national issues, stood fully united against India and if India dared to make any adventure, she would have to face a befitting reply.
Sirajul Haq said that Pakistan today was not the Pakistan of 1965 or 1971. Pakistan now was a recognized nuclear power he said, and added “India should keep it mind that in case of war, the bigger country had to suffer higher 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 had represented the nation’s sentiments on the Kashmir issue and said “we won’t feel shy of appreciating that.”
The JI chief said that India should not have any misunderstanding and if she made a blunder this time, she would face nothing except destruction. Therefore, it was in Indian’s own interest to hold meaningful talks with Pakistan on Kashmir and the Kashmiris 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 her. He noted that the even the saner elements in India were also demanding of New Delhi to pull out her troops from Kashmir. He said the Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court had remarked that India had lost her 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 ruler 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 was on record that corruption to the tune of Rs. 4380 billion was taking place in the country annually. However, he said the nation wanted to see the criminals behind the 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 that all those who had secured heavy banks loans and then swallowed these , also deserved to be arrested and the written loans recovered from them. Sirajul Haq said that the JI would hold conferences against corruption at provincial level and stage a sit-in at Faisalabad on September 30. To a question about 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. —INP
