USA should accept Taliban’s talks offer: JI chief

Siraj says US decision to attack Afghanistan with NATO force was a blunder
JI leader says clash of the institutions could endanger democratic system in the country

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Siraj-ul-Haq has said that the Taliban’s demand in an open letter to the US Congress and the US people for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and resolving issue through dialogue was right step and Washington should accept the offer.
He was addressing the participants of the JI central workshop at Mansoora on Friday. Siraj said that in human history, the decisions of the wars were made at the dialogue table. He said that the US had been fighting against the mountains of Afghanistan for the last seventeen years but to no avail. In fact, he said the US decision to attack Afghanistan with NATO force was a blunder. This was an attack on the sovereignty and independence of a Muslim country and the Afghans fought for their freedom with great valour and courage.
He said that hundreds of thousands of Afghans had been martyred in the war but the Afghans had not accepted defeat. He said that even if the US continued this war for hundred years, it would not be able to defeat the Afghans.
The JI chief strongly condemned the inclusion of Pakistan in the US watch list for supporting terrorism under Indian pressure. He said that India had been carrying on worst form of terrorism in Held Kashmir for the last seventy years but Pakistan had failed to highlight this fact at the world level. On the other hand, he said the Pak Army had done commendable job in fighting terrorism which had been acknowledged by the world.
The JI chief further said that the clash of the institutions could endanger the democratic system in the country. He said if the state institutions were not allowed to function independently and if they took to confrontation with one another instead of cooperation, the whole system could collapse.
Calling upon the institutions to remain within their limits and work hand-in-hand with one another, the JI chief said that the present state of confrontation was a serious threat to the democracy.
He also warned if horse trading in the Senate elections was not stopped, the Upper House would turn into a Sunday Bazaar and those returning to the Senate would be least interested in legislation or other national issues but would all the time be busy in money making and building their personal assets.
He urged the Election Commission to take immediate notice of the activities going on in this regard and stop all unlawful practices to restore the people’s confidence in the elections.