Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Senator Sirajul Haq said India was issuing threats to Pakistan out of its fear of a defeat in Kashmir.
Talking to reporters at Mansoora on Friday, he said Narendra Modi had been a war monger from the very beginning and his government was busy in poisonous propaganda against this country to cover its failure in resolving the problems of poverty, providing basic facilities to the masses and the growing unrest among the minorities.
The JI chief, however, said the Pakistani nation, in spite of its differences on national issues, stood fully united against India and if India dared to make any adventure, it would face a befitting reply.
Sirajul Haq said today’s Pakistan was not the Pakistan of 1965 or 1971. Pakistan was now a recognised nuclear power, he said, and added “India should keep in mind that in case of war, the bigger country has to suffer higher losses.”
He said India would have to come towards a meaningful dialogue on Kashmir.
He said the JI appreciated the way Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif represented the nation’s sentiments on the Kashmir issue and said, “We won’t feel shy of appreciating that.”
The JI chief further said India should not have any misunderstanding and if it made a blunder this time, it would face nothing except destruction. Therefore, it was in India’s own interest to hold meaningful talks with Pakistan on Kashmir, and the Kashmiri leadership should also be included in the talks. He said India had failed to crush the Kashmiris’ spirit of liberation through brute force and repression and every new day in held Kashmir dawned with more humiliation for it.
He noted that the even the saner elements in India were also demanding of New Delhi to pull out its troops from Kashmir. He said the chief justice of the Indian Supreme Court had remarked that India had lost its case in Kashmir. Pakistan-India talks at present should be confined to the Kashmir issue and the matters of trade and cultural troupes and the mango and Sari diplomacy should be stopped, he added.
Sirajul Haq said the JI Shoora had also reviewed JI’s corruption free Pakistan campaign and had resolved to continue the drive till every penny of the plundered wealth was recovered and the plunderers were sent behind bars.
He said the government’s attitude so far clearly indicated that the rulers were not ready to initiate any step against corruption and some of the opposition leaders were also with the government on this issue. However, he said, the nation was determined not to tolerate the plunderers of the public money any more.
He said an ex-chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was on record that corruption to the tune of Rs 4,380 billion was taking place in the country annually. However, he said, the nation wanted to see the criminals behind the bars.
He said the JI wanted a completely ruthless and transparent accountability in which not only the prime minister but Sirajul Haq was also made accountable.
He said all those who secured heavy bank loans and then swallowed these also deserved to be arrested. Sirajul Haq said the JI would hold conferences against corruption at provincial level and stage a sit-in at Faisalabad on September 30.
To a question about situation in Karachi, Sirajul Haq said it was due to the sacrifices and the resoluteness of the JI workers and leaders in Karachi that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement workers were also supporting the resolutions calling for initiating a treason case against Altaf Husain.