KARACHI, June 20: Peace movements in the world would prevail over oppressive forces as all peace-loving people have forged unity rising above their religious beliefs and affiliations with organization to combat the naked aggression and conspiracies by the United States and its cohorts.
This was declared by leaders of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal at a meeting held at CP Barar Society here on Sunday. They included MNA Muhammad Hussain Mehanti, MPA Nasrullah Shaji, Maulana Siddique Rehmani and Syed Mehmood.
Mr Mehanti said that if the US was in an impression that it would succeed in conquering the world with the might of its military power, it was sadly mistaken. Had this been possible, he argued, the US and allied forces might have conquered Afghanistan and Iraq where people were offering stiff and sustained resistance against the occupation forces.
The handpicked cliques of the occupation forces in the two countries, he said, seemed helpless as against the resistance and Washington appeared disappointed over its failure in establishing control of the two countries.
Mr Mehanti observed that after unleashing aggression on Iraq, Bush had been expecting a warm welcome to the US forces by Iraqi people and anticipating an easy take over of that country's oil wealth. However, the stiff resistance had shattered his dreams.
Similarly, he added, the US had failed to establish writ of Karzai government beyond Kabul. Indicating that aggression and destabilization was Washington's patent style, he said that the aggression against the two countries, and the bombings and bloodshed in Karachi were part of the same conspiracy.
As such, he added, the United States was the common enemy of the Islamic world. The local US agents had been identified by people, he said. He declared that those targeting places of worship and other sacred shrines could not be 'Jihadi' but terrorists and infidels. "They have nothing to do with any religious party."
Condemning target killings, he said that the MMA in order to rein-in those behind such murders, a neutral administration and a non-party figure as governor would have to be ensured. "In other provinces, there are non-political governors, but in Sindh, a political activist has been made governor."
Nasrullah Shaji alleged that Gen Musharraf, by pursuing US agenda, had made the entire Ummah to suffer.
JI SHOORA: The Jamaat-i-Islami, Sindh, expressing concern over the terrorists incidents taking place in Karachi one after the other for the last one-and-half months, has urged the federal and provincial governments to play their role in improving law and order.
It also called for a fool-proof security to mosques, imambargahs and other religious places as well as protection to Ulema, religious figures, important personalities, etc.
The demand was made through one of the resolutions adopted by the JI Shoora which met here on Sunday with the party's provincial chief Dr Mumtaz Ali Memon in the chair.
Mentioning the series of bomb blasts, including those at places of worship, and assassination of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, the resolution maintained that due to the absence of an action, the terrorists were encouraged to the extent that they dared even to attack the corps commander's cavalcade and kill seven soldiers.
The incidents, it added, appeared to be a conspiracy to push the country's economic capital into panic and fear and to frustrate all constructive efforts made by the city government.
Appreciating Karachiites for foiling the plot to trigger off sectarian riots in the city, the Shoora held the Sindh governor responsible for the acts of terrorism in Sindh. It urged the competent authorities to dismiss the Sindh governor.
It demanded that results of NA-243 be declared nul and void. In another resolution, the Shoora demanded arrest of the killers of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and Munawwar Suhrawardy, besides the terrorists involved in the bomb blasts at Hyderi Mosque and Imambargah Ali Raza.