SWABI: Speakers at a function here on Monday criticised the United Nations for utterly failing to protect the interests of the Muslim states.

The seminar was titled ‘UN Day and the Muslim States’ organised by the Gandhara Union of Journalists as part of its Rabita (contact) programme.

They insisted that the UN had worked for safeguarding interests of powerful countries, especially the five veto powers, US, Russia, UK, France and China.

They said the Islamic world was burning as strife in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Libya and Yeman continued unabated.

The slogan of ‘Arab Spring’ was in fact the Arab destruction to redraw the Middle East map in such way which helped the US in shaping the new order according to the Washington’s global agenda, they observed.

The speakers were of the view that under a well-planned strategy the alliance led by the US had kept the Muslim counties economically weak to dictate and exploit them.

They said after the Second World War the US always remained at war with one country or the other, particularly with the Muslim countries, pitching them against each other while selling its weapons. They said that the Iran-Iraq war was a prime example of that policy.

They lamented that leaders of the Muslim countries had also failed to adopt result-oriented economic policies. There is no unity in the ranks of Muslim states, providing an opportunity to the US and its allies to exploit their internal differences for their own benefits, they observed. The UN has been used as a rubber stamp, as the US protected Israel from any UN action, encouraging it to devour the Palestinian territories at will, they continued.

The speakers said during the last over three months there had been massive bloodshed in Kashmir, but in the recent UN General Assembly session the US and Russia toed the Indian line.

The UN-adopted resolutions on Kashmir remained to be implemented till date, indicating the helplessness of the world body, they observed.

Published in Dawn October 25th, 2016