KOHAT, Feb 1: Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said the people are tired of the rulers as they have failed to deal with the deteriorating law and order situation.
“The people are fed up with the present government, which has given them the worst law and order (situation), unemployment, price hike and which above all has sold the country’s sovereignty by providing airbases and strategic facilities to the US, besides handing over people to Washington,” he said.
“Only the people can remove the present rulers if they challenge them openly.”
Mr Ahmed expressed these views while talking to Dawn on Wednesday night at the residence of Malik Asad where he and MNA Shabbir Ahmed had gone to offer Fateha for the slain police chief of Peshawar, Malik Saad.
He said a foreign “hand” was involved in the recent spate of bombings in the country. The sitting government, he said, had created the conditions in which the bombings had become inevitable.
Elaborating, Mr Ahmed said the worsening law and order situation was simply a result of the government’s wrong policies, including the one which had turned the country into a frontline state in the ongoing “war on terrorism”.
“The enemy is taking full advantage of the tug of war between the Afghan and Pakistan governments over the infiltration of miscreants and it is fanning sectarianism to cause hatred among religious parties in order to keep them away from mainstream politics.”
The JI’s chief claimed that terming every terrorist attack a suicide bombing was part of a conspiracy to malign Islam. But the most worrying element was that the attacks had strengthened the hands of Gen Musharraf as an “agent” of western powers.
Former NWFP finance minister and provincial amir of JI Sairaj ul Haq also termed the suicide bombings a ploy to use Pakistan and to keep it engaged in an unnecessary war so that the West could exercise control over the energy and other resources of the region.
He was of the opinion that the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and People’s Party Parliamentarians did not trust each other despite signing a “charter of democracy”.