PESHAWAR, Jan 2: Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, a British MP, has stressed the need for setting up an International Court of Justice to deal with the menace of terrorism confronting the world.

Talking to Dawn here on Tuesday, the member of the House of Commons, said that terrorism had not hit the US alone but it was posing a threat to civil societies in all countries of the world.

However, he said, the US had backed out of a proposal, signed by 40 countries, about an International Court of Justice having representation from all countries of the world to deal with the menace of terrorism.

In reply to a question about Osama bin Laden, he said the US was responsible for the monster it created during the Afghan war against Russia. The US was more responsible than any other country for the organized destruction of Afghanistan after the dismemberment of the former Soviet Union, he observed.

“The US has not only used its allies but abused and betrayed them after achieving its objectives in Afghanistan in the past. The terrorism the US was faced with today, is the result of the wrong policies adopted by Washington on the Afghan issue,” he said.

He said on the one hand the US had been advocating for nuclear non-proliferation but on the other it was itself not ready to sign the CTBT. In the same way, the US was opposing the idea of the ICJ to handle cases of terrorism, he added.

The British lawmaker said the US had set a new precedent by deploying its forces in Afghanistan in order to deal with those who had been accused of killing US citizens and causing damage to US property. Now, India was following in the same footsteps as it had asked Pakistan to hand over “terrorists” to it (India).

“The US attitude and military action show that the might is right and he who is powerful can wreak havoc on its enemies,” the British MP said.

He expressed the hope that there would be no war between India and Pakistan as the world could not afford it. The world community had been exerting pressure on both the countries to solve their problems through negotiations, he added.

He urged the Pakistan government to end its habit of seeking more loans from the developed nations as it would not solve the people’s problems.

“I have opposed granting of loans by the British government to Pakistan. I think loans are a burden and not a relief. Every government has multiplied Pakistan’s burden,” he added.

Mr Sarwar suggested that Pakistan could put its economy on the right track by privatizing its sick industrial units. Even, the Socialist governments were considering it essential to privatize their public sector units, he said.

The British government would grant 100,000 permits to illegal immigrants, living there for years. It would cast a healthy impact on the British economy, he added.

He said the Muslim community in England was feeling safe and secure. Some random acts of racial violence that occurred in some parts of the country had made no impact on the Muslims, he added.