The Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) has rejected the decision of restoring NATO supplies and announced kicking off countrywide protests.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, DPC Chairman Samiul Haq said million of patriotic Pakistanis would stage a sit-in along the supply route.
Haq said the US had given Pakistan a tight slap by announcing not to stop drone attacks. He said the strike would be observed on Friday, April20, in which rallies would be taken out at every nook and corner of the country.
The DPC would also organise a conference on Ring Road Peshawar on Sunday, April 15. The next summit meeting of the council would be held on April 22 in Jhang.
“We do not believe in obliteration but we will not allow the rulers, who have gone forward in American slavery, to compromise on national interests. Islam also imparts teaching of not providing any kind of help to the killers of Muslim. The clerics and Islamic scholars are agreed on the point that opening of supplies would be against Islami Shariah,” Sami added. He said the DPC also appealed to the owners of containers, goods transporters, drivers, helpers and even labourers that they should refuse to carry NATO supplies. He demanded the government contact the UN on the drone attacks
Haq said the resolution passed by parliament was an attempt to murder the national aspirations and to pacify the US. “The president and the prime minister have exploited parliament and the parties inside the House tactfully into giving shelter to the American interest,” he said.
He said the rulers could hold referendum on the question of opening the supplies, and the results would be an eye-opener for them. Earlier a DPC meeting was held at the residence of Ijaz-ul-Haq under the chairmanship of Maulana Samiul Haq.
During the meeting the overall situation of the country, the resolution on national security adopted by parliament recently, and mounting involvement of the US and India in Pakistan’s affairs came under discussion.