HYDERABAD, Oct 16: Naib Ameer Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan Professor Ghafoor Ahmed has said that the country was in the grip of political and economic crises while the present rulers have become a security risk.

He was speaking at an Eid Millan party organised by the local chapter of Jamaat-i-Islami here on Monday evening.

The provincial general secretary of the party, Rashid Naseem, Abdul Waheed Qureshi, Shaikh Shoukat Ali, Dr Fawad Ahmed and others also spoke on the occasion.

He said the Americans were killing Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan while Israel shedding blood of Palestinian Muslims and India of Kashmiri people.

He, however said in Pakistan, the army has been fighting against their people and those army personnel, who refused to shed the blood of their brethren, were threatened with court martial.

He wondered why those officers have not been court-martialled till date, who had laid down their arms before the Indian forces in East Pakistan although it had been recommended in the Hamoodur Rehman Commission Report.

Prof Ghafoor said that north-west of Pakistan has always remained safe but due to the pro-American policies of General Pervez Musharraf, all the borders of Pakistan have been rendered unsafe. He said the so-called war on terror has now spread up to Bannu, Swat and Dera Ismail Khan.

He claimed that more army personnel have died during the regime of General Pervez Musharraf than those martyred in all the Indo-Pak wars.

He termed the NRO as an ordinance of bilateral interests and added that in order to prolong his rule General Pervez Musharraf had held two meetings with Ms Benazir Bhutto in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and both the leaders had agreed to protect American interests in their own interests. He said, despite this, both of them were not sincere with each other.