LAHORE: Jamaat Islami secretary general Liaqat Baloch has demanded the government stop Indian home minister Rajnath from participating in the Saarc conference in Islamabad next week as a mark of protest against the continued killings of Kashmiri Muslims by the Indian army and to express solidarity with the innocent Kashmiris.
“It must be clear to the governments of both Pakistan and India that unless Kashmir issue was on top of the agenda, no talks between the two countries will bear fruit which has been the case over the last five decades,” he said while addressing a press conference at Nasir Bagh on Saturday regarding JI’s Azadi March scheduled from Lahore to Wagha border on Sunday (today) led by JI ameer Senator Sirajul Haq in connection with JI’s Kashmir solidarity movement.
Baloch advised the government to constitute a parliamentary delegation who should visit the five permanent and eleven non-permanent members of the UN to highlight the Kashmir issue in the perspective of the division formula of the subcontinent and UN resolutions guaranteeing right to self-determination to Kashmiris.
He appealed to the masses to join the JI Azadi march to express solidarity with the Kashmiris who had been bravely facing the bullets of the occupation forces into their chests but were not ready to give up on their demand for the right of self-determination. He said Indian army had been committing gross atrocities in East Pakistan, Held Kashmir, East Punjab, Assam and other states which had crossed all limits now but the international organizations, human rights bodies and the UN remained unmoved in a display of criminal silence.
Liaqat Baloch harshly condemned what he called dual standards of the western world regarding human rights of Muslims, and urged upon the Mulsim Ummah to shun all the hopes from the so-called world community and get united to solve its problems. He stressed that trade and cultural ties with India must be suspended till New Delhi accepted Kashmir as a disputed territory, withdrew her troops from the valley and released thousands of Kashmiris lying in jails and secret detention centers.
He said JI’s Kashmir solidarity movement was aimed at expressing solidarity with Kashmiri Muslims in their struggle for breaking the slavery shackles of Delhi administration over Muslim majority Kashmir state. JI Punjab ameer Mian Maqsood Ahmed said Azadi March would start from Nasir Bagh and terminate at Wagha border after winding its way through Lahore Press Club, Garhi Shahu, Sadar Bazar and Harbanspura interchange. JI Lahore ameer Zikrullah Mujahid was also present. www.thenews.com.pk/print/138926-Bar-Indian-minister-from-attending-Saarc-moot-JI
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