LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan on Tuesday strongly reacted to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s statement that “US apology on Salala attack won’t bring back our soldiers.”

Gilani’s statement in this respect is an open invitation to the lawbreakers and terrorists to create chaos in the country and a refusal to accept the rule of the constitution and the law, said the JI chief while speaking to various delegations at Mansoora, the JI headquarters in Lahore.

Hasan said that if Gilani’s argument was accepted, all the murderers, terrorists and saboteurs lying in jails should be set free as their imprisonment wont bring back their victims nor would their being jailed would benefit the aggrieved families in any way. Besides, he said, this reasoning suggests that all law courts and law enforcing agencies should be disbanded as they were simply useless.

The JI chief charged that after Speaker National Assembly Fehmida Mirza’s ruling in his favour, “Gilani seemed to be out of his senses and was issuing statements which made no sense.”

In a recent interview to a TV channel, Gilani had the audacity to say that all those who wanted to leave the country, should leave. This was an insult to the patriotic people of the country, said the JI chief.