JI supporters protest against Nato supply resumption
Government restores supply in the ‘blink of an eye’, says Mehanti.
KARACHI:
“I do not wish to take Allah’s wrath upon myself by sitting idle at home and see more Muslim men, women and children die as a result of restroration of the Nato supply route,” said Noman Nadeem.
A geologist by profession, he was present at Quaid’s mausoleum on Friday with hundreds of others to participate in a rally organised by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). “I, for one, feel this as my responsibility to tell the government that I’m against this decision.”
The party organised the rally to show their resentment towards the government’s decision of opening up the Nato supply route. The JI supporters gathered at Quaid’s mausoleum after attending the Friday prayers.
The JI, which had earlier formed the Difa-e-Pakistan Council with other right-wing parties, wants to see a blanket ban on Nato supplies via Pakistan. A graduate of Karachi University, Kamran Kamboh, said that Muslims had been at the receiving end since the beginning of the war on terror. The participants at the front row held a large banner which read “Restoration of Nato supply is a licence to kill Muslims”.
JI’s Karachi chief, Muhammad Hussain Mehanti, in his address to the participants said that although the Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Mian Raza Rabbani had presented 26 points in the National Assembly as conditions for restoring the Nato supply but the government had restored the supply line after a ‘so-called sorry’ in the blink of an eye. He said that the present government had worsened the country’s situation by upholding Pervez Musharraf’s policies. Mehanti said that the time had come to get rid of the dominance of United States and its planted rulers in the country. “The people know that present rulers like Musharraf are the touts of United States,” he said.
“Unless the nation throws these stooges out of the country by a democratic revolution no betterment will arrive in the country.”
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.
“I do not wish to take Allah’s wrath upon myself by sitting idle at home and see more Muslim men, women and children die as a result of restroration of the Nato supply route,” said Noman Nadeem.
A geologist by profession, he was present at Quaid’s mausoleum on Friday with hundreds of others to participate in a rally organised by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). “I, for one, feel this as my responsibility to tell the government that I’m against this decision.”
The party organised the rally to show their resentment towards the government’s decision of opening up the Nato supply route. The JI supporters gathered at Quaid’s mausoleum after attending the Friday prayers.
The JI, which had earlier formed the Difa-e-Pakistan Council with other right-wing parties, wants to see a blanket ban on Nato supplies via Pakistan. A graduate of Karachi University, Kamran Kamboh, said that Muslims had been at the receiving end since the beginning of the war on terror. The participants at the front row held a large banner which read “Restoration of Nato supply is a licence to kill Muslims”.
JI’s Karachi chief, Muhammad Hussain Mehanti, in his address to the participants said that although the Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Mian Raza Rabbani had presented 26 points in the National Assembly as conditions for restoring the Nato supply but the government had restored the supply line after a ‘so-called sorry’ in the blink of an eye. He said that the present government had worsened the country’s situation by upholding Pervez Musharraf’s policies. Mehanti said that the time had come to get rid of the dominance of United States and its planted rulers in the country. “The people know that present rulers like Musharraf are the touts of United States,” he said.
“Unless the nation throws these stooges out of the country by a democratic revolution no betterment will arrive in the country.”
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.