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| Qazi warns govt against any change in Kashmir policy |
| 2002-06-08 |
| The Jamaat-i-Islami chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, has urged the government not to accept any pressure to bargain on Pakistan's principled stand on the issue of Kashmir and warned that any sign of weakness could cost the country its freedom. "The only way to stop war is to have full preparation to meet the challenges", he said, and announced to hold a massive rally on June 16 to demonstrate that the nation was united to meet any Indian challenge. A good way to avoid war would be to cease sending cannon fodder to blow things and people up in somebody else's territory. Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that the issue of Kashmir is an incomplete agenda of the partition of the subcontinent which has yet to be resolved through a plebiscite by the people of the valley. He blamed Britain for the constant tension in the region and added that it was due to the fact that Britain awarded a Muslim district of Punjab to India giving the enemy a permanent physical access to the valley. Couldn't be the fault of people like Qazi for picking at the sore for the past 50 years and defining their next door neighbor as an enemy. It's gotta be them damn furriners. He criticized the government for siding with the US in targeting the people of Afghanistan and its government which, he claimed, were the defenders of our western border and where now the US, British and European soldiers, in collaboration with the government, were deployed in the tribal areas and where instead of peace, lawlessness has become order of the day, he remarked. He said we have forewarned the government that the policy instead of saving us would lead to our disaster as the US action was not against Afghanistan but was against the Muslim ummah. Although the US had termed Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan an "axis of evil", its next target would be Pakistan, the only Muslim country with nuclear power, he feared. "They ain't targeting us because we're homicidal lunatics! It's our religion they're attacking! Our religion requires us to be homicidal lunatics!" The JI chief lamented that the US commandos were being led by the Pakistan Army for conducting raids in tribal areas and Once you start banning organizations made up of large numbers of professional killers with an ideology inimical to the interests of the nation, there's no telling where it's going to end. Why, they might somebody ban the subversive organizations behind them, too, and even jug the people making a good living running them... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |