 Peopleâs confidence in the relief work done by religious parties was a testimony to the fact that the Pakistani nation had rejected the âso-called enlightened moderationâ and the US agenda being pursued by the rulers, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Deputy Secretary General Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha said on Tuesday.
| "We hate enlightenment! We hate moderation! And we hate enlightened moderation most of all!" |
Piracha said that no enlightened or much-trumpeted human rights organisation was seen in the quake-affected areas. He said the UNHCR had donated its reserve tents to Al-Khidmat for setting up tent villages in the affected areas. The JI leader said that Pakistan could not get $5 billion needed for the rehabilitation of quake survivors despite being a frontline state in the âso-called war against terrorâ. Islamabad could get only $15 million of the pledges made at the donorsâ conference, he said, adding that the world nationsâ lukewarm response to the quake tragedy reflected Islamabadâs foreign policy failure.
| Pak's foreign policy failures have much to do with the presence of Jamaat e-Islami and its clones. If Pakland wasn't full of arrogant, beturbanned holy men calling for death to everybody in sight to include each other, the world would be better disposed to it. But then it wouldn't be Pakland, would it? |
The world gave $12 billion for the rehabilitation of tsunami survivors, but it did not heed repeated calls for help by the Pakistani relief commissioner, Piracha said.
| They don't like you. It's because you're always seething, rolling your eyes and walking out of things, y'know. Why waste money on ingrates? |
According to a JI press release, JI vice chief and Al-Khidmat Foundation President Liaqat Baloch visited the foundationâs camp office at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad. JI leader Mian Mohammad Aslam and Shabab-e-Milli President Syed Bilal accompanied Baloch. |