TAXILA: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Punjab Secretary General Iqbal Khan on Wednesday claimed that the present government’s weak Kashmir policy encouraged India to change the special status of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir region.

He was talking to newsmen after administering oath for newly elected office-bearers of the tehsil JI chapter.

He claimed that the prime minister and his team had betrayed the people of Pakistan and Kashmir, completely ignoring the two-nation theory.

He was of the view that India-held Kashmir had been turned into a largest jail but the rulers had not taken a single bold step in support of the oppressed people of the area.

He said Prime Minister Imran Khan was indifferent to the misery of the people of the India-held Kashmir but he was overenthusiastic about the Kartarpur Corridor opening through which he gave extraordinary concessions and favours to ‘Indians’.

The JI leader warned the prime minister against taking a U-turn on Kashmir issue.

Responding to a question, Mr Iqbal said the PTI government was the most inefficient one in history as all claims of the ruling party to bring about change had been proved a pack of lies.

Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2019