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PESHAWAR, Feb 5: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has said that Pakistan was not a battleground but some elements were exploiting innocent people in the name of jihad.
Speaking at a function in connection with the ‘Kashmir Day’ here, he said that jihadis were simple people but “playing in the hands of vested interest”. Being Muslims, people were well aware of jihad, which should not be used against the country.
The governor said the Kashmir issue was an unfinished part of the partition agreement (1947) and must be completed by granting freedom to the Kashmiris.
“Pakistan has always tried to resolve the Kashmir issue thorough peaceful means and India should also respond in the same manner,” Governor Ghani added.
MANSEHRA: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has demanded for freedom of the occupied Kashmir declaring it the root cause of tension between India and Pakistan.
Like other parts of the country, the JI took out a rally to express solidarity with the Kashmiris. Hundreds of people, while holding banners and placards, marched through the Abbottabad and Kashmir roads and chanted anti-government slogans while protesting against its Kashmir policy. Speaking on the occasion, JI provincial vice-president, Mushtaq Khan; provincial deputy secretary-general, Dr Tariq Sherazi; and district chief Younas Khattak said that without the Indian controlled Kashmir, Pakistan was incomplete.
DIR LOWER: In Timergara the JI organised a rally. JI workers, led by its district chief and former MNA Moulana Ahmad Ghafoor, took out a procession from the Ahyaol-uloom Balambat.
They marched on the road chanting slogan against the governments of India, Pakistan and United States of America. Later, they held a rally at the Rest House Chowk, which was addressed by Maulana Ahmad Ghafoor, Muzafar Sayed, Jandool and Izazul Mulk.
They demanded of the global powers to implement the UN resolution about Kashmir and stop the brutalities of the Indian troops against innocent Kashmiris.
