‘Deny transit rights to Nato supplies’

JD says no talks with India unless it respects Pakistan’s sovereignty.

MULTAN:

The government should immediately suspend supplies for the North Atlantic Treaty Orgnanistaion troops fighting in Afghanistan from passing through the Pakistani treaty, said speakers at a Pakistan Forum organised on Saturday by the Jammatud Dawa in Multan.

They said the government should also sever all ties with the United Stated and pursue an independent foreign policy.

The speakers included Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki, Ameer Hamza , Hafiz Abdul Ghaffar,Yaqub Sheikh, Mehmood Nadeem. Members of several political parties also attended the event.

About India, the speakers said it had violated the Pakistani borders several times in the last two years and fired on Rangers officials in Sialkot.

They said they would organise more events to build consensus against the US-India-Israel nexus.

They said the three countries were working to destabilise Pakistan and that no peace talks could be tolerated with any of these they agreed to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 12th, 2011.