TIMERGARA/KHAR: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has said that Kashmir cannot be liberated through item songs and speeches.

Addressing a press conference in Balambat here the other day, he said that jihad was the only solution to the Kashmir issue. JI parliamentary leader in the provincial assembly Inayatullah Khan, district chief Izazul Mulk and other local leaders were also present on the occasion.

Senator Mushtaq said that Prime Minister Imran Khan would be remembered in the history as ‘seller of Kashmir’ as he had bargained on it. He asked the premier to step down for his failure to fulfil his pledges.

Mushtaq says Kashmir can’t be liberated through item songs and speeches

The JI leader said that the country was being run by the IMF officials while well-to-do people were shifting their capital abroad due to flawed economic policies of the government.

Criticising the PTI leadership, he said that the National Accountability Bureau was being used for political victimisation of the opposition parties. He said that not a single penny had so far been recovered from the “corrupt” politicians.

“There seems to be no government in the country,” said Mr Khan. He said that doctors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been on strike for the last 38 days, but no one in the government was taking its notice. To a query, he said that his party was fully supporting the JUI-F’s ‘Azadi march’.

In Khar, Jamaat-i-Islami leaders on Friday expressed concern over growing incidents of targeted killing in Bajaur tribal district and called for taking tangible measures to improve law and order situation in the region.

Addressing a press conference here, the JI leaders, including its tribal districts chapter chief Sardar Khan, Bajaur chapter head Maulana Waheed Gul and MPA Sirajuddin Khan said that law and order situation in the district had deteriorated over the last few months.

They said that scores of incidents over the last several months had left a number of tribal elders, political activists and Levies personnel dead or wounded.

The JI leaders said that traders and elders of the district had also been receiving calls from unknown persons demanding extortion from them for the last several weeks. They said that the poor law and order situation had created fear and unrest among the residents.

They urged the government to take result-oriented steps for safety and security of the local people.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2019