GUJRANWALA – Internal Services Intelligence (ISI) former chief General (Retd) Hameed Gull said aggressions in Afghanistan and Iraq had met the worst defeats and the US must leave the two countries by admitting its defeats.
He was addressing a seminar organised by Gujranwala Wasif Khayal Sangat to commemorate Wasif Ali Wasif. Senator Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, Orya Maqbool Jan, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Zulfiquar Ahmad Cheema, Kh Qutb-ud-Din, Khurram Dastgir Khan, Abdur Rehman Kuaka, Hina Nasrullah and Jahangir Mir also spoke on the occasion.
He said that bloodshed at Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa brought anarchy in retaliation and now the Pakistani nation requires a soft Islamic revolution instead of indiscriminate killings. Pakistan would have experienced Islamic revolution if the long march launched for the restoration of the judiciary had not been stopped in Gujranwala, he said and added history was being re-written again in Afghanistan, and Pakistan should be aware of it.
Senator Raja Zafar-ul-Haq said that the first prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, during his visit to the United States (US), had made it clear to the world that Pakistan would be an Islamic state and now after six decades the country could not be barred from progress and development.
Orya Maqbool Jan said that Pakistan was established in the name of Allah Almighty and whosoever tried to change its Islamic identity would invite the wrath of Allah.
He added that the establishment of Pakistan was an incomplete revolution which would be completed sooner or later.
Several other speakers also addressed the seminar and paid rich tribute to Wasif Ali Wasif and called him 20th century’s spiritual personality who gave the lesson of love, peace, brotherhood and revolution.
Woman among three killed in road accidents: An unidentified woman was killed among three others in separate incidents.
In the first incident, 50-year-old Sikander was seriously injured after being hit by a speedy van on GT Road near Gakhar. The injured was being shifted to a hospital when he succumbed to injuries. In the second incident, a 65-year-old woman and a teenage boy were killed after being struck by an unknown vehicle on Sialkot Road. Aroop police shifted both the bodies to a nearby hospital.
