Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq has exhorted the government to move the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the violation of the tripartite agreement between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh assuring that there won’t be war crime trials.
Addressing a seminar at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday in support of the pro-Pakistan leaders facing executions in Bangladesh, Haq said if Islamabad took up the issue with the ICJ, the Muslim world would support it.
He said the rulers in Islamabad had failed to stop the executions of Pakistan’s loyalists so far, adding that if the government raised the issue at this stage, scores of others who had been awarded death sentence could be saved. He said that death sentence had been announced for 25 people while more than 25,000 others were put behind the bars. “They also include thousands of youth who were not born in 1971,” he added.
Others who addressed on the occasion included senior journalists Ataur Rahman, Sajjad Mir, Akram Chaudhry, JI foreign wing chief Abdul Ghaffar Aziz and JI Information Secretary Ameer ul Azeem.
The JI chief said if the rulers had any sense of national honour and self respect, they would have aroused the world’s conscience at the very first execution in Dhaka. However, he said that Islamabad’s conscience was dead. “Islamabad is just a graveyard and my voice has died doen in this graveyard. The Lion has proved to be the lion caged in the zoo,” he added.
He pointed out that Indian Premier Modi had during in his Dhaka visit, publicly confessed his role in the breakup of Pakistan. He said that Modi’s statement could have been made the basis for raising this issue.
The JI chief exhorted the rulers and the opposition to prove their loyalty towards the country and the nation ad stop making love with Modi. He said that Hasina Wajid was sending those people to the gallows who did not want Bangladesh to become Indian colony.
Sirajul Haq said besides more than 200 million Indian Muslims, the Muslims in Nepal, Bhutan and Sri n Lanka wanted sovereignty and liberation from India’s supremacy. However, he said that Pakistan was bowing before Modi and her rulers had mentally accepted India’s supremacy.
The JI chief also deplored that the Pakistani media was not giving due importance to the people sacrificing their lives in Dhaka for Pakistan.
Addressing the seminar, Sajjad Mir said that eminent Indian intellectuals had turned their awards in protest against Modi’s extremism. However, he said that some people in this country were still trying to shake the ideological foundations of this country.
Senior journalist Ataur Rahman said that those going to the gallows in Bangladesh had expiated the sins of the nation as a whole. He said that the elderly leaders of the JI inBangladesh were being punished for the sins of the rulers.