KARACHI, Jan 9: Speakers at a seminar on Thursday urged the government not to provide any assistance to the United States in its planned aggression against Iraq.

Speaking at the seminar organized by monthly magazine Badalti Dunya (Changing World) at the PMA House, they demanded that the authorities openly condemn the America’s aggressive designs.

They also condemned the United States for threatening to use weapons of mass destruction against Iraq, a comparatively small and weak country.

They said that after the Sept 11 incident the United States seemed to be having the misconception that it could carry out any action, including the use of military one, anywhere in the world and nobody would be able to resist it.

They said that now the people around the world had understood the American designs and were staging protest demonstrations to pressure their respective governments to restrain them from becoming part of any aggression, as war only brought about poverty, hunger, death etc.

They said the United States and other imperialistic forces just wanted an undisputed control over the resources of the weaker countries, and wanted to destroy any force, no matter how small or weak, that could resist their that design.

One of the speakers said that after the United States was through with Iraq and a few other countries, it would turn against Pakistan.

He said that one of the most effective way to change the American policy of international aggression was to mobilise the American public’s opinion against that policy, as the Vietnamese had successfully done and managed to change the American government’s policy on their country.

Another speaker said that although many people appreciated Osama bin Ladin’s purported actions, in fact the United States and Israel had used these incidents as a pretext to increase their atrocities against the weaker nations.

Dr Pervaiz Hoodbhoy, M. B. Naqvi, Taj Haider, Jam Saqi, Sabihuddin Ghausi, Abdul Khalique Junejo, Fahmida Riaz and Baba Najmi also spoke.