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| December 27, 2002 | Friday | Shawwal 22, 1423 |
British people reject action against Iraq
TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 26: The British people have rejected unilateral action against Iraq.
British House of Commons member Chaudhry Sarwar told newsmen on Thursday that all opinion polls conducted by various organizations and institutes in UK recently showed that a majority of people were against their government on Iraq issue.
He said he had also participated in an anti-war rally which was held in UK. It was the biggest rally in the history of the country which was attended by more than 400,000 people.
He said white voters of his constituency often visited him and favoured attack on Israel instead of Iraq. They said though Israel violated UN resolutions, Bush administration patronized it, he added.
He said Israeli forces had been killing innocent Palestinian people, including children, daily since long. Israel did not pay any heed to the UN which ordered it to give autonomy to Palestine and withdraw its troops from there.
Mr Sarwar said US President Bush had his eyes on two of the five biggest oil producing countries, Iraq and Iran, while other three — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Arab Emirates — were already under his control.
He criticized Bush for getting secret documents through unfair pressure on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan which were given to him (Annan) by Iraq regarding its weapons.
He said he had recently met Tony Blair who assured him that both the US and the UK had the only aim of disarming Iraq and not to attack it.
He said Bush himself was a threat to the world peace and not Saddam Husain.
He said two MPs of Pakistan and two of India origin planned to hold joint seminars in both the countries with the cooperation of a British organization to ease tension between them. They have the support of premier Tony Blair too.
He welcomed the restoration of democracy in Pakistan and urged politicians not to create a situation which could lead to the return of army.
Chaudhry Sarwar will leave for UK on January 1.
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