LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has said the rulers’ silence over the US president’s support for India as a permanent UN Security Council member and US-India nuclear deal is not understandable.

At a news conference here on Tuesday, he said India was an aggressor and had been holding the Kashmiris slaves at gunpoint for the last six decades and had also thrust three wars on Pakistan in the past. With this background, the US proposal for making India permanent member of the UN Security Council was a great injustice, he argued.

“We don’t want a war with the US but the rulers’ behaviour as the US slaves is not acceptable to the nation,” he added.

Mr Haq said the JI would hold countrywide rallies, seminars and processions on Feb 5 to express solidarity with the Kashmiris struggling for liberation.

He recalled Obama’s promise on assumption of power that he would help solve major issues including Kashmir. However, today, he was building India as a regional policeman and also supporting New Delhi’s designs to destabilise this country through Afghanistan.

He said it was the government’s responsibility to normalise political situation in the country prior to the Senate elections.

He said setting up of a judicial commission to audit the 2013 polls was not an issue relating only to the government and the PTI; this was the demand of all parties and the general public.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2015

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