PESHAWAR: The statement of the US Secretary of State that the country had consulted 12 Muslim states before declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital should be an eye-opener for the Muslim Ummah.
This was said by Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Siraj-ul- Haq on Thursday while speaking at a festival organised by students at Peshawar University.
He said the JI had held ‘million march’ in Karachi for Al-Aqsa and also raised the issue in the parliament. However, he said that the political leadership in the country, including the rulers, was not prepared to raise this issue. He said if the Muslim rulers had considered the issues of Kashmir, Palestine, Burma and Bosnia as their issues, Kashmir and Palestine would have been liberated by now.
He said that the so-called Muslim rulers considered Washington as their guide and were further dividing the Ummah on regional, ethnic and sectarian grounds only to remain in power. However, he said, there was an awakening among the Ummah, which was disturbing the ruling junta.
Holding the rulers responsible for all social, political and economic problems of the country, the JI chief said that ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif could not establish a single good standard hospital in the country during his prolonged rule where his wife could be treated.
The JI chief said the party had prepared an ambitious plan after consulting more than nine hundred PhD holders for development in the fields of education, economy, agriculture, trade, energy and advanced technology, and was mobilising the youth for achieving the goal.
