LAHORE: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq has called upon the federal government to remove the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) reservations regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and apprise the nation of the details of the epoch-making project instead of making it controversial.
Addressing a press conference at Timargara on Sunday, he said the high level committee headed by the Prime Minister and including all Chief Ministers regarding the CPEC had failed due to the federal government attitude. He said the government should take the Khyber P. into confidence before going ahead with the project.
Sirajul Haq pointed out that the Senate Standing Committee had proposed Chitral- Shandur- Malakand road as alternate route and the government should accept the same so that work on the project could proceed in a cordial atmosphere.
The JI chief further said the nation wanted the solution of the Panama leaks issue through the court and at present all eyes were on the judiciary.
Meanwhile, the J chief has strongly condemned continued Russian bombing on Syrian city Halab and has appealed to the United Nations to intervene and stop the bloodshed.
In a statement, he said that the Al- Asad family which had ruled Syria for the last 46 years and its allies had massacred around three and a half lakh innocent Syrians in the civil war during the last five years. More than ten million people had been forced to leave the country and take refuge in neighbouring states especially Turkey while the entire country had been turned into ruins.
The JI chief deplored that the world community including neighbouring Muslim countries were silent on the Syrian bloodshed and some of them were a party to the killings. The bloodshed in Iraq and Syria had surpassed the massacre carried out by Chan-gaze Khan and Halaku Khan. He said the entire benefit of the bloodshed was going to the Zionist state Israel and the enemies of Islam.
Sirajul Haq reminded the world powers involved in the proxy war in Syria that tyranny and oppression always led to horrible consequences and said the fate of the Soviet Union should be an eye opener for all. He said if the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq continued, more world powers would also meet the same fate.
