KARACHI, April 17: The Sindh National Front (SNF) Chairman, Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, has said that the United Nations must act now to stop massacre of innocent Iraqis on their own soil.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, the SNF chief said that a commission consisting Mahathir Bin Mohammad and other leaders of Muslim states who enjoyed Iraqi people's confidence be set up to establish be set up to restore order and establish a democratic set up in Iraq.

Sardar Bhutto observed that the conduct of US and its allies in Iraq appeared contrary to the international laws and the UN Charter right from the start of the conflict.

Rejecting any justification for the war against Iraq and the massacres of thousands of Iraqi people, he said: "Now when it has become clear that weapon of mass destruction never existed in Iraq and that the war had been imposed on the Iraqi people by declaring Saddam Hussain murderer and tyrant, further destruction and continued killings in that country cannot not be condoned."

He was of the view that the motive behind the war to appease Israel and rob Iraq of its wealth. This has also become clear now, he added.

The SNF chief said the US and allied forces should quit Iraq as desired by the people in the rest of the countries. He said that leaders of the countries engaged in the war would have to face wrath of their own people. In this regard he referred to the developments in Spain. -PPI

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