US-India collusion threat to regional peace: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has said Pakistani rulers’ silence over US President Obama’s support for India as permanent member of UN Security Council and US-India nuclear deal is not understandable.
Addressing a news conference at Mansoora on Tuesday, he said India was an aggressor and had been occupying Kashmir at gunpoint for six decades, besides imposing three wars on Pakistan in the past. US support for India’s UN Security Council membership was a great injustice in the face of Delhi’s belligerent history, he said. ‘We don’t want a war with US, but rulers’ behaviour as US slaves is not acceptable to the nation’, he added.
Stating that peace in the region was not possible without solution of Kashmir issue, Sirajul Haq said JI would hold rallies, seminars and processions on 5 February to express nation’s solidarity with Kashmiris struggling for liberation. He termed country’s foreign policy a bundle of failures. The rulers in Islamabad were serving the US interests instead of the interest of their own country, yet the US today was standing by India and ‘our rulers were watching in silence,’ he said.
He said US-India collusion was a threat to the regional peace. US had entered into nuclear and trade agreements with India while with Pakistan, it was trading on bodies. He said Obama, on assumption of power, had given an assurance to the world for solving major issues, including Kashmir. However, today, he was building India as regional policeman and supporting New Delhi designs to destabilise this country through Afghanistan.
To a question, Sirajul Haq said a peaceful and prosperous Pakistan was the need of the masses. He said it was the government’s responsibility to normalise the political situation in the country prior to the Senate elections. He said setting up Judicial Commission was not only the issue of the government and the PTI; this was the demand of all the parties and the general public. He said all political parties should shun their differences and join hands on a one point agenda for the solution of public problems. He said poverty-ridden people were committing suicides but the rulers did not take pity on them at all. However, he was sure that the next elections would be a day of reckoning for the political pundits who had been in charge of the national resources so far because there was an urge among the masses to rise for a decisive struggle.
Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch said that US foreign policy had always been in favour of India and had been ignoring Pakistan under a number of pretexts, promises of aid and support, despite that it had been pushing Islamabad to ‘do more’.
In a statement, he said at one time, US under the leadership of Nobel Prize winner Barak Obama was not ready to issue visa to Narendera Modi because of the massacre of human beings. However, after BJP’s coming into power, both India and US had suddenly united. He said the both countries wanted to keep Pakistan involved in internal problems.