With the withdrawal of the NATO and US troops from Afghanistan, the enemies of Islam have stepped up their conspiracies to create misunderstanding between Pakistan and Afghanistan, said Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch while talking to a delegation of traders trading cloth from Lahore to Afghanistan on Monday.
The JI secretary general said that both Pakistan and Afghanistan had important strategic location and the two were linked together through common religion, blood and cultural ties. Besides, for the last thirty five years, the two neighbouring states had revived the historic Islamic tradition of the Mohajireen and the Ansar.
Baloch said that the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan was important for the both countries and their people and this was the time for a positive step towards the solution of the problems facing the two countries and their armed forces.
Expressing deep grief over the Peshawar tragedy, he however said that the enemy target behind the tragedy was to create bad blood between the two neighbours so that they did not come closer to each other.
He objected to the attitude of the security personnel towards the Afghan traders engaged in the trade of cloth from the Azam Cloth Market in the city, the biggest cloth market of Asia.
He said that these traders imported cloth from the Lahore market to Afghanistan and central Asian states and were a source of foreign exchange for the country but the security agencies were maltreating them on the excuse of terrorism and security. He urged the federal and provincial governments to take notice of the matter and provide security to the traders.
