LAHORE Jamaat-i-Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hasan said on Saturday there seemed to be no end to the war on terror as the US was conspiring to extend it from Fata and the NWFP to Punjab, Karachi and Quetta.
Speaking to JI office-bearers at central, provincial and district levels at Mansoora, he said if the people of Pakistan didn't understand the nature of this war and didn't stand in the way of the US designs, it would be disastrous for the country's solidarity. He said he was sure that the US would quit Pakistan in a humiliating manner after Afghanistan and Iraq. He said the 'Go America Go' campaign of the JI was aimed at exposing the real US face and ending its interference in this country. The JI would step up this drive, he added.
Mr Hasan said the US brought the people and the Pakistan Army against each other. He said the balance sheet issued by the army showed that there were losses on both sides. In Fata, innocent women and children were becoming target of drone attacks and military operation and properties of the people were being destroyed. More than 10,000 security personnel and over 21,000 civilians had been killed in the ongoing war, but still Washington doubted Islamabad's sincerity and was pressing for more.
The drones were now flying over Chaman and Quetta, and there was a possibility of attacks on Karachi in search of the so-called Taliban. Pakistan incurred losses worth $50 billion in this American war, but Washington and the so-called Friends of Democratic Pakistan had not paid even a penny so far, he said.
The JI chief accused the ISPR of spreading disinformation and said its press releases were irresponsible and false. He said if JI leader Haroonur Rasheed was a terrorist, then everybody was a terrorist.
He said the present government had failed on internal as well as external fronts. Its economic policies were designed by the IMF that deprived the masses of two-time meal. He said two-year time was enough for introducing policy change, but the rulers were only interested in plunder and corruption to increase their wealth.
JI deputy chief Chaudhry Aslam Saleemi, Secretary-General Liaquat Baloch, Deputy Secretary-General Farid Piracha, provincial chiefs Prof Muhammad Ibrahim, Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar, Asadullah Bhutto and Abdul Mateen Akhundzada were also present at the meeting which will continue on Sunday (today).
