Advises Nawaz Sharif to work out peace strategy.
QUETTA:
The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) made a direct appeal to the prime minister on Saturday to secure the release of all Baloch missing persons in order to ensure peace in the province.
The appeal was made by the group’s leader Maulana Mohammed Ahmed Ludhianvi. “The prime minister should personally seek apology from Baloch nationalists who have been deprived of their legitimate rights for decades,” the ASWJ leader told a news conference at the Quetta Press Club.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, according to Maulana Ludhianvi, should devise a strategy and try holding talks with the Baloch nationalists just like it is doing with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Ludhianvi stressed that the people of Balochistan have been denied their legitimate rights, which has forced them to turn to extremism.
He said that the Baloch people have not been paid their due attention and it was time the government played its role. “ASWJ is willing to play its role if the government wants us to do something for the restoration of peace,” Ludhianvi added.
The ASWJ president also condemned the Quetta and Peshawar blasts, while holding foreign countries responsible for the incident.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2014.
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Read an article recently that the banned Baloch outfits are now working in tandem with ASWJ. This further lends credibility to that piece of news.
Now you (Pakistanis) open your eyes and see who these missing persons are and why rightists and their touts in media making hue and cry not for the love for justice but for the heinous agenda they (missing persons) are carrying.North or south east or west all terrorist links lead to mullah.Catch the bull by the horn and don't get afraid of them they are coward people who know the language of force.If they shout you shout louder and they will run away.
@JB: They've published numerous Peoples Aman Committee statements too
The media gives far to much coverage to terrorists.
@JB well if et and other media in pakistan can publish statements of shia terrorists than why not the other side, besides alot of his men and leaders have been killed by shia terrorists trained in iran, so he is a victim that way
ASWJ are a militant deobandi group. Deobandism, no thanks. Say no to Deobandism
now every terrorist will enhance their terror to get their henious demands fulfilled. . Sad!
Wow, good coverage .... so, Taliban terrorists' attacks and threats on Express group's offices are working now ! First of all ASWJ is a banned sectarian outfit and ET should have mentioned it ! http://epaper.dawn.com/Advt.php?StoryImage=02022014005008 Secondly, Ahrar-ul-Hind claimed responsibility for Friday's bomb blasts in Quetta and Peshawar that should have been clarified after Ludhianvi's claim that foreign hand was involved in those blasts !
Let PM take note of the advice of ASWJ for releasing all political prisoners and seeking apology on behalf of the State of Pakistan, BUT before the Government takes decision, we the people of Pakistan request the Chief of ASWJ, in the name of Almighty Allah, who is the Best Judge, to shun violence and killings in the name of Islam, and let every sect whether Muslim or Non-Muslim, who all the creator of Almighty Allah, live with peace and harmony in Pakistan in accordance with the command of Almighty Allah in Surah "Al-Kafrun:, the last line of which, reads as follows: FOR YOU IS YOUR RELIGION, AND FOR ME IS MY RELIGION".
Well will he also renounce attacks on Shias/Hazaras? Will he accept them as his equal?
But why is he advising PM? He has been there adviser for long...
I am not surprised at ET publishing statements of banned terrorists organizations keeping in view the attacks on its office and men.