August 04, 2006	Friday	Rajab 8, 1427

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ISLAMABAD Aug 3: Speakers at a seminar on Thursday called upon the Muslim Ummah to forge complete unity in its ranks to end Israeli aggression in the Middle East and to face the challenges of the international anti-Islam forces bent upon targeting Muslim countries one after the other.

The seminar titled “Israeli aggression and international responsibility” was organised by Pakistan Institute of National Affairs and an Urdu daily and was attended by government, opposition and religious leaders.

Speaking on the occasion, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Hussain Ahmed said the spirit of jehad was spreading across the globe and Hezbullah and Hamas were its symbols.

He called for mobilisation of the masses to confront their rulers who, he said, had become coward pawns at the hands of the West due to their love of money and power and fear of death.

He asked General Musharraf to step down and hand over power to some valiant and self-respecting leadership.

Minister for religious affairs Ijazul Haq called for uniting the nation on one platform and under one leader and said at least ten Muslim rulers should gather courage to challenge the United States against its anti-Islam designs.

In response to the seminar’s demand, he promised to ask prime minister Shaukat Aziz to convene a joint parliament session to debate the challenges to Islam and the Ummah and propose means to defend it.

He also agreed that the OIC should initiate a criminal case in the International Court of Justice against Israel’s involvement in massive violation of human rights, killing of civilian, children, women and innocent men.

He said American writer Brother Andrew had told him that Bush belonged to evangelist sect of Christianity which believed in occupation of Arab lands from Israel to rivers Euphrates to Nile, Egypt to Syria and Jordan, etc..

Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of his own faction of JUI, said Israelis and its patrons were dreaming to occupy the holy lands of the Muslims including Madinah and Makkah and the Muslim Ummah was unprepared to meet such a challenge.

He said Israel’s aggression in Lebanon and Palestine should not be looked in isolation as it was part of a conspiracy to get hold of whole Arab world to set up a greater Zionist/Christian state.

Former ISI chief Lt-Gen Hamid Gul said nuclear power, spirit of jehad, democracy and above all sufficient valiance could stop Israel from making incursions into Muslim territories.

He said every Israeli prime minister has termed Pakistan enemy number one while Quaid-i-Azam had said every Pakistani would fight to the last against Israel.

He did not agree with the demand of a ceasefire in Lebanon, claiming that sustained resistance and consistent rocket firing by Hezbullah would make a large number of Israelis flee to America.

Chief of “Hizbullah Pakistan” Maj-Gen Zaheerul Islam Abbasi demanded that the Muslim states and their rulers declare jehad against Zionist-Christian alliance. He said the US was resorting to open aggression against Muslim states while our rulers were supporting them in its terrorist actions all over the world.

Former foreign secretary Akram Zaki, PPP leader Farhatullah Babar, Ikram Chaudhry Advocate, Maulana Abdul Malik, MNA and former ambassador Tayyab Siddiqi also spoke on the occasion.