Government should not budge on Kashmir, says Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said Pakistan should not withdraw even an inch from its national and principled stance on Kashmir as India could not keep Kashmiris its slaves for long.
Kashmiris must get the right to self-determination under international law as promised to them by the UN, he said while delivering a Friday sermon at Mansoorah Masjid. He said talks with India without the Kashmir issue would be of no use. He appreciated Islamabad’s decision of refusing to host the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference.
The JI Ameer said any attempt to tamper with the ideological foundations of the country would damage its geographical boundaries as well. He said the Constitution did not allow citizens to obey the rulers at the cost of disobeying Allah Almighty. He appealed to Chief Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja to take suo motu of the Apex Court majority judgment in the 21st amendment case which had not addressed doubts regarding the Islamic provisions of the Constitution in the public mind.
He said democracy in France, the US or Britain could not be a model for Pakistan because it would render huge sacrifices made by our forefathers for creating the Muslim state meaningless. He said the JI would obstruct every attempt to alter the Islamic character of the Constitution.