March 27, 2003	Thursday	Muharram 23, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, March 26: Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, acting president of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), on Wednesday asked the government to raise the issue of bombing hospital and civilian population in Iraq by the United States and United Kingdom forces at the United Nations Security Council.

The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader, in a statement, said that Pakistan should raise the issue of bombing hospital and markets at the United Nations Security Council and persuade the United States to immediately stop killing innocent people as no religion allowed it in any case.

He demanded of the government to condemn the United States and United Kingdom forces’ heavy bombardment over the pretext that troops were taking shelter in the markets and hospitals.

He said that it had belied the American claims to protect humanity.

Referring to the Afghan war, he said that the United States forces had also heavily bombed the civilian population, hospitals and mosques on the same pretext and killed thousands of innocent people.

The PML-N leader said it was very strange that the United States, which claimed to be world champion of human rights, had trampled the United Nations Charter of Human rights and killed innocent people.

Mr Hashmi said that President Bush, on one hand, ignoring the United Nations Charter imposed an unjustified war on innocent people of Iraq, and on the other was asking Baghdad to treat prisoners of war in accordance with the Geneva Convention.

The United States had gone mad and resorted to bombing civilian population as the Iraqi forces’ stiff resistance had frustrated its plans, he added.