Pakistan and Afghanistan should settle their bilateral issues through dialogue: Siraj

ISLAMABAD: The Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that Pakistan and Afghanistan should settle their bilateral issues through dialogue and warned that the common enemy is trying to derive benefits from the Pak-Afghan tension.

Talking to the media outside the Parliament House here, he said that India had always tried to isolate Pakistan and to use the Afghan land against this country. 

He said that the leadership of the two countries should move prudently and foil the enemy conspiracies through mutual understanding.

Sirajul Haq said that Pakistan had stood by the Afghans in every crisis. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan had provided shelter to nearly four million Afghans of whom around 2.5 million were still camping in this country as refugees.

The JI chief said that instead of falling prey to the enemy designs the two countries should move towards a better and prosperous future. Sirajul Haq said that the cunning enemy, India, had been trying to pit the two Muslim states against each other. 

He said there was an Indian hand behind every terrorist activity inside Pakistan.  The JI chief said that Pakistan considered Afghanistan as an independent and sovereign state and did not like to interfere in the internal affairs of any country. 

“We want lasting peace in Afghanistan. All the Afghan groups should settle their issues through talks so that the enemy conspiracies are foiled,” he added. Sirajul Haq said that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan was the basic reason of instability in the region. The JI chief paid rich tribute to Major Jawad Ali Changezi, who embraced martyrdom in firing by Afghan troops at Torkham.