KARACHI, Nov 28: Acting chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, Syed Munawar Hasan, on Wednesday, asserted that the United States, Britain and Pakistan were equally responsible for killing innocent Muslims in Afghanistan.

Addressing an iftar party, he criticized the dual standard of the US, saying that on the one hand it launched operation against terrorism and on the other it was committing “worst kind of terrorism” by killing innocent people.

He viewed that the government’s Afghan policy has left Pakistan’s 1500km border along Afghanistan insecure. “The takeover of the Afghan capital by the Indian and Russian- influenced Northern Alliance is enough to prove that America never remain on its words.”

Syed Munawar Hasan regretted that the government did not protest when the US ambassador to India declared Kashmiri freedom movement as terrorism. He maintained that the presence of American troops in the region is a serious threat to Pakistan’s nuclear assets.

He said the extremist Hindus’ attack on the places of other religions in India, Jews’ killing of innocent Palestinians, Tamil Tigers, and the Irish Republican Army are not branded as terrorists nor any operation launched against them, but the Muslims, who are victims of terrorism, are blamed as terrorists.

He vowed to continue the struggle against the US influence in Afghanistan.—PPI