HYDERABAD: Leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan-Noorani and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Sunday praised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for forcefully advocating the Kashmir case in the United Nations as a number of civil society organisations took out rallies in Sindh towns to condemn Indian prime minister.

In Hyderabad, JUP-N president Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair told a press conference that the prime minister should also have exposed before the world arrested Indian spy’s activities and espionage within Pakistan in order to strengthen the case against India.

He said that India was trying to hoodwink the world through a vicious propaganda campaign. The entire Pakistani nation stood behind its army and believed if India dared launch an attack the army would give a befitting response because no nation of the world could match Muslims’ desire for martyrdom, he said.

He advised the PML-N government to develop consensus among all political parties to be able to deal with the situation at international level. The PML-N should invite all parties to dialogue on all contentious issues, he said.

He said the party activists who had left JUP-N to join the Muttahida Qaumi Movement would be accepted again if they were not involved in terrorist activities.

BADIN: PML-N MPA and president of the party’s Sindh chapter, Ismail Rahu, has said that every patriotic Pakistani was proud of his prime minister for making a bold speech in response to Indian premier’s threats of war.

In a press statement issued here on Sunday, Mr Rahu said that Mr Sharif was speaking for all Pakistanis at the UN. “Every patriotic citizen is ready to defend the motherland,” he said, adding the party’s support to Kashmir was unflinching.

He asked the Sindh government to change its attitude towards growers. “I am preparing to lead farmers in their struggle for a fair price of their hard-earned produce,” he said.

He said that it was a mockery of justice that the chief executive of the province himself was saying that jobs would be given only to Jiyalas. Such practices had already created a sense of deprivation among youths, he said.

SUKKUR: Activists of the Sunni Party Pakistan (SPP) and residents of Jaffarabad locality took out rallies in Jacobabad on Sunday to condemn India and its prime minister.

The SPP rally reached the press club where the protesters held a sit-in and torched an effigy of Indian prime minister.

SPP leaders said that Indian prime minister was a butcher of thousands of Muslims and he deserved nothing less than capital punishment.

The rally by residents of Jaffarabad locality also arrived at the press club where the leaders said they saluted Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif for giving a befitting response to India.

DADU: Members of general public and activists of civil society organisations took out a rally against Indian prime minister. The rally organised by the Loond Welfare Association reached the press club where the leaders said the nation was united and ready to face Indian aggression.

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2016