NOWSHERA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that India has admitted its defeat in Kashmir as it has lost the war at all fronts.

Addressing a public meeting in Azakhel here on Thursday, he all political parties should shun differences and forge unity among their ranks. “If India imposed war on Pakistan, 200 million people of the country would fight side by side with army at the borders,” he added.

The JI chief said that India had admitted its defeat in Kashmir. “India is now trying to create a war-like situation in the region. India has sealed all offices of Jamaat-i- Islami in held Kashmir but it should know that Jamaat has become a representative political party in Kashmir,” he added.

Mr Siraj said that India would not only lose Kashmir but also Khalistan and Asam if it started war. He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would be made a model Islamic welfare province. The friends of America and landlords would become a part of history, he added.

“Now corruption and Pakistan could not go together. We will build a country where every child would be admitted to school. Every person would get home and security,” he said.

Mr Siraj said that the country was looted by the present ruling party. He termed the present democracy a shape of dictatorship, saying real democracy was not allowed in the country.

He said that JI was trying its level best to introduce the real system of welfare state in the country. He said that some liberal elements with support of America wanted to distort the real identity of Pakistan.

He condemned the statement of a federal minister, who had termed religious seminaries factories of illiterate, and said that such people should be put behind bar.

JI provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan also addressed the public meeting and said that next general elections would be a beginning of a revolution.

He said that JI provincial minister had written a new history of transparency and they succeeded in blocking un-Islamic legislation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

Mr Khan said that provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh passed domestic violence bills but Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly sent the same bill to Council of Islamic Ideology.

Published in Dawn, September 30th, 2016