October 13, 2008	Monday	Shawwal 13, 1429

HYDERABAD, Oct 12: The amir of the Sindh chapter of Jamaat-i-Islami, Maulana Asadullah Bhutto, has said that an ethnic organisation has unleashed a propaganda about Taliban’s presence in Sindh to incite ethnic riots and pave the way for American interference.

Speaking at a seminar on “US interference and future of Pakistan” organised by the Islami Jamiat Talaba at the press club on Saturday, the Maulana said that Sindh was a land of saints and Sufis and the people of Sindh believed in love, peace and brotherhood. They would foil all the conspiracies to pit brothers against brothers, he said.

He warned the Pakistan People’s Party that if it continued to pursue the policies of Pervez Musharraf then even the United States would not be able to save its government.

He said that the American aggression in Afghanistan had now spread not only to the tribal areas but also to the 15 districts of the NWFP and it had become increasingly difficult to stem the tide of this war.

He advised the government to shun Pervez Musharraf’s policies and formulate new policies through the parliament and reminded the PPP that it had always remained champion of the supremacy of parliament.

Mr Bhutto said that the US had never been a friend of Pakistan and cited as proof the fate of Gen Ayoub, Gen Ziaul Haq and Z.A. Bhutto.

He opposed the formation of tribal Lashkars in the northern areas to fight against terrorists and said that it was a conspiracy to pit the people of tribal areas against one another.

Dr Fawad Ahmed, Abdul Hafeez Abid and Ahmed Mazhoor Ashraf also spoke at the seminar.