LAHORE, Jan 18: Jamaat-e-Islami Shoora has expressed serious concerns over "Destruction of Pakistan" consultations being made in Washington and held that Musharraf regime is solely responsible for pushing the country to the edge of devastation.

In a resolution passed by JI Shoora which met at Mansoorah with Qazi Hussain Ahmad in the chair, the JI moot strongly rejected the American agenda for Pakistan and expressed firm resolve that the party and the entire nation will counter every challenge and threat to national security and integrity like an iron wall.

The resolution stressed that Gen Musharraf's dictatorship has badly failed in protecting national interests and all opinion polls are almost unanimously showing that over 80 per cent people of Pakistan want to get rid of him immediately. It said that protection of Pakistan's security, sovereignty and independence depends upon removal of Gen Musharraf, and added that only a genuine representative government can counter the present crises which should be chosen through free and fair elections by autonomous election commission and independent judiciary, and establish respectable relations with all countries of the world.

The resolution particularly condemned American agenda against Muslim world particularly Pakistan, and expressed concerns that Washington has been stepping up its anti Muslim policies and measures over the past many years. Soon after Feb 2007 when Washington took command of the Nato forces in Afghanistan, its officials has been particularly issuing arrogant and provocative statements against Pakistan while Gen Musharraf has been adopting one retreat after the other to paint a helpless figure of Islamabad. The Shoora termed Gen Musharraf's becoming a mere tool in Washington's hand a serious insult to Pakistan and a national tragedy. It said it is only because of the cowardice of Gen Musharraf and his regime that Washington took unbearable liberty to treat Pakistan like a slave despite calling it a front line ally in the so called war against terror. While on the other hand Islamabad also treats itself like a colony of Washington and silently tolerating American threats which has become a daily affair.

The Shoora said it considered American threats to Pakistan an attack on its independence and sovereignty. It also expressed serious condemnation that American presidential candidates have been issuing threats to Pakistan as part of their election campaign and it shows that both Republicans and Democrats have at least on thing in common which is Pakistan-enmity and the desire to destroy or control Pakistani nuclear assets.

In another resolution, the JI Shoora condemned Gen Musharraf for making Pakistan army fight and kill its own citizens for the sake of American interests. It said the so called US war against terror is in fact a war against Islam and Muslims which Bush had also called as crusade but Gen Musharraf brought this war inside Pakistani territories to complete American agenda in Pakistan. The war was started by launching military operation in Waziristan agency which later spread to other tribal areas causing devastating effects in entire region and killing hundreds of innocent civilians, women and children. Now settled areas of Pakistan particularly Swat has become a battle field for the last many months, badly persecuting the poor civilians who have been facing death on one hand and scarcity of food and medicine in shape of curfew on the other, which made it impossible for funeral and burial of dead bodies for many days. Agriculture and business have come to a halt causing starvation to the poor people, while government and private employees have been deprived from their salaries for months because of the closure of banks and offices. Payment of utility bills has become impossible under these circumstances but the government departments are callously disconnecting power connections under this pretext to further victimize the poor. Children and youth are deprived of education as educational institutions have been closed for months. Civil administration has become crippled while military administration has not been accepting the reconciliation efforts of the jirgas comprising local elders and tribal leaders but in fact creating more hurdles in bringing about any negotiated solution to the crisis. The resolution warned that refusal to Jirga solutions and using blind military force against civilians is devastating for both people and the armed forces. Presence of Army in tribal and settled areas of NWFP is no solution to any problems but in fact creating more problems. It demanded immediate withdrawal of army from NWFP and solving the problem through the Jirga of local and tribal elders.

The resolution appealed to entire nation particularly the political and religious parties to condemn this devastating policy and play their due role in activating the people for stopping this cruel policy of the military regime.

  
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