KARACHI: Jamaat-e Islami (JI) Pakistan chief and Difa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC) central leader Syed Munawar Hasan has said that any attempt to restore supply line of Nato through Pakistan would never bear fruit as the DPC would resist to such a move.

Addressing a press briefing after a meeting of the DPC leaders here Saturday, Hasan blamed the United States of wanting to destabilize Pakistan and carrying out further attacks like the one at the Salala checkpost that resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistan soldiers. Morever, the JI chief said that the present rulers were endorsing the “wicked agenda of the genocide of Muslims” in this region.

We are ready to pay any price but would not allow the US and Nato to get reinforcement through Pakistan, he said.

He said that on May 27, the DPC would convene a grand workers convention in Karachi while the DPC leaders would finalize their long march on June 5.

The press briefing was also addressed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.

Hafiz Saeed said that the long march was only postponed earlier because the leaders of the parties in DPC had decided to use that tool at the appropriate time.

Moreover, Saeed alleged that it was not only the US but also India that was interfering into Pakistan’s affairs.

Pakistan is a sovereign state and would never be allowed to become an Indian market, said the JuD chief.

The Difaa-i-Pakistan Council is an alliance of several right-winged religiopolitical parties opposing the US ‘war on terror’ and Pakistan providing supply routes to Nato troops in Afghanistan.

The council, especially JuD leader Hafiz Saeed, has also been a critic of Pakistan’s recent granting of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India.

Saeed is accused by India and the US of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed Pakistan of “not doing enough” against Saeed.