JI observes Kashmir / Palestine Day LAHORE, Feb 05: To express solidarity with the oppressed Muslims of Kashmir and Palestine, Jamaat-e-Islami observed Kashmir and Palestine Solidarity Day on Thursday all over the country by taking out rallies and holding public meetings in all major cities and towns where JI leaders addressed the participants.
Addressing those rallies and public meetings JI leadership condemned the Israeli and Indian occupation of Muslim lands and their heinous crimes against humanity being perpetrated upon helpless Muslim population. They denounced the civilized world in the west for giving silent approval of Muslim genocide in Kashmir and Palestine, and vowed to support freedom struggles in the two states till they reached logical conclusion. In Islamabad, JI ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad led a large rally from Kashmir road to Constitution Avenue which later turned into a public meeting. The participants who were chanting slogans and holding banners and placards, also made a long chain of thousands of hands in order to express solidarity with the oppressed Muslims of Kashmir and Palestine. Addressing the participants Qazi Hussain Ahmad said Washington, Nato and world powers must understand that Kashmiris 61 year old freedom struggle against Indian army has proved that they could never be kept slaves. He accused America and other world powers of conspiring against Islam and Muslim people, and said Muslim rulers are subjugating masses at gun point to save the capitalist system. He also condemned rulers for banning Jamaat ud Dawah and other organization supporting Kashmir Jihad and warned it could prove disastrous for national defense. He warned that under a dangerous conspiracy the masses and jihadi groups are being made to fight against each other while corrupt politicians are plundering billions of rupees of public money in the name of NRO. He asked the people to rise against the capitalist system whose ideology is to exploit the poor and keep them slaves of the elite in the name of engineered elections. He said Islamic system through a peaceful Islamic revolution is the only answer to all the problems facing the country since only Islam provides justice, equality and peace to all. He particularly warned against sowing hatred against Pakistan army among people, and said killing of innocent women and children in Swat and other operations like Jamia Hafsa etc are contributing a lot towards materializing this conspiracy. He expressed sorrow that what a mindless approach Pakistani rulers are making by promoting peace and friendship with India at a time when Delhi was talking about US like surgical strikes on Pakistan. He said US is the biggest terrorist in the world which had killed millions of people in the world particularly Japanese, Vietnamese, Cubans, Koreans Afghanis and Iraqis with lethal bombs. He said Kashmiris should be given the right to self determination under UN resolutions but Pakistan has taken a U-turn on its principled stance. In Lahore, a large rally including men, women and children was taken out from Nasir Bagh to Punjab assembly led by JI secretary general Syed Munawar Hasan and other leaders including Director Foreign Affairs Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, Amirul Azeem, Chaudhry Mohammad Shaukat, Abdul Hafeez Ahmad, Anwar Gondal, Ziauddin Ansari and Zikrullah Mujahid. The participants were holding banners and placards written with slogans for Kashmir's freedom and condemning Indian atrocities on innocent Muslims. Addressing the public meeting outside Punjab Assembly, Munawar Hasan condemned president Asif Zardari for terming Kashmiri freedom fighters as terrorists and supporting the stance of Washington and Delhi on the issue. He stressed that Pakistani nation considers Kashmiris as freedom fighters and will continue to help them achiever their freedom from Indian occupation in order to secure their lifeline as declared by the father of the nation Quaid-e-Azam. He said president Zardari had neither been a PPP worker nor suffered victimization, but he only served jail for corruption charges. He said Zardari got a lottery prize after Benazir Bhutto's assassination to become president, which is why he never disclosed the names of her killers despite claiming to have known them. He said Zardari is taking sides of the killers by concealing their names. Munawar Hasan said Pakistani army is killing and bombing those tribals who had liberated the Azad Kashmir from Indian occupation. He said it was time Pakistan army should come out of the war for American interests in tribal areas, and follow the agenda of Pakistani nation. Munawar Hasan criticized the Muslim rulers for exploiting resources of Muslim countries for the sake of their masters in Washington and subjugating Muslim populations for their own interests. He said Pakistani nation is not averse to talks on Kashmir but India had always used talks to delay the process and strengthen her control on Kashmir.
