JUI firm on ‘gherao’ of airport

Published October 14, 2001

QUETTA, Oct 13: The Secretary General of Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri has warned the government not to stop the supporters and workers of his party from reaching Jacobabad airport on Sunday.

“Any high handedness to stop our supporters from reaching Jacobabad on Sunday will trigger off an un-ending chain reaction” he warned the government on Saturday while speaking at a press conference at Darul Uloom here.

He said the information reaching him suggests that the government agencies have virtually cordon Jacobabad. “All movement of the traffic and people is being checked” he told newsmen stating that all these steps have been taken to stop supporters of his party in Sindh from reaching the city.

In a protest meeting of JUI on Friday in Quetta, Maulana Haidri gave a ‘gherao’ call of Jacobabad airport to protest against what he alleges handing over of airport facilities to USA to carry out bombing of Kandahar and other cities of Afghanistan.

He urged the country’s military leadership to review and reconsider their decision of offering logistics support and air space to the USA warplanes for bombing of Afghanistan.

The JUI leader criticised government’s decision to support USA against Taliban. He also came down heavily on the United Nations which failed to perform its obligations according to its charter and is now what he alleged acting as a subservient organisation of the USA.

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