December 26, 2008	Friday	Zilhaj 27, 1429

KARACHI, Dec 25: Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagara has dispelled the impression that a war between Pakistan and India is imminent and said that there is no possibility of any such armed conflict between the two countries. He advised the people to stay calm and not to worry about it.

He said this while talking to a group of journalists at Quaid-i-Azam Golden Cup Race held here on Thursday. Pir Pagara was the chief guest at the equestrian event.

However, the PML-F chief told journalists that he was an ordinary citizen like everyone else and as such was unaware of any development on the country’s borders with India.

“It is the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence which are familiar with these matters and are also quite capable of responding to any challenge,” he added.

The spiritual leader of the Hur Jamaat said in reply to another question: “As far as the Hur Mujahid Force is concerned, they always have sided with the army and not with any particular government and if, God forbid, comes a testing time for the country, the Hur force would not lag behind and would be there to defend the country along with the army till the last drop of their blood.”

An MPA from Punjab, Abdul Quadir Gilani, son of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who had come here to meet Pir Pagara, in reply to a question denied any political impasse between the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan People’s Party in Punjab.