Qazi slams Waziristan operation

Published November 8, 2003

LAHORE, Nov 7: The government is targeting innocent tribals in south Waziristan under pressure from the US and such tactics will not end the so-called terrorism from the globe.

Qazi Husain Ahmad, the Jamaat-i-Islami amir and MMA central leader, said here while delivering the Friday sermon. “How can the Americans expect to end what they call terrorism without accepting the centrality of Palestine and Kashmir issues?” he asked.

“The US does not have any new world order, but disorder. It has been targeting Muslims all over the world in the name of terrorism. Palestinians are being ejected out of their homes and killed in their own territory. So is being done with the Kashmiris asking for right to self-determination,” he said.

The US, he said, was the biggest danger to the world peace and had stockpiled the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction. It was the USA which first used atom bomb. “It hardly makes any sense for it to accuse others of being terrorists,” he said.

Meanwhile, JI secretary-general Prof Munawwar said the government had made the life of the residents of Waziristan miserable, and all was being done to look for the so-called members of Al-Qaeda. Houses were being demolished and people were being arrested without any reason, he said.

The MMA, he said, had given a call for a movement against official tactics and would try to bring people to the streets after Ramazan.

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