No ties with India until Kashmir, water issues resolved:Munawar Hasan

Lahore :  Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan Syed Munawar Hasan, has cautioned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against promoting trade and relations with India till the solution of the Kashmir issue and an end to its water aggression against this country.

Addressing the Pakistani delegates from fifteen countries at Mansoora on Saturday, he said that from the day the PML( N) leader took over power, the Indian trade delegations were in a queue while Mian Nawaz Sharif was equally anxious to strengthen trade relations with the neighboring country.

The JI Ameer however said that India had never been serious in ties with this country and it had always been after its interests. India had always been trying to undo this country and about two dozens of Indian consulates in Afghanistan were deeply involved in terrorism in this country.

Commenting on the federal budget, he said that the rulers were out to suck the last drop of blood from the people but were not ready to cut down their lavish spending. He said that the PML (N) which had been making tall promises of recovering the written off bank loans from the big wigs and also from tax thieves, had now opted to burden the masses with more taxes.

Syed Munawar Hasan said that before coming to power, the PML(N) leader had announced that he won’t reside in the Prime Minister House, but now besides the PM House, two additional buildings had been declared PM House where billions of the nation’s money would be spent. He also slated the steep raise in the tax on the mobile phone calls.

Those born with a silver spoon in their mouth could not understand the miseries of the common man, he remarked, adding that all the promises made by the PML(N) before the elections had proved a fraud.

The JI Ameer said, the government was keen to import electricity from India at the rate of Rs. 18 per unit, but was not willing to get electric power from Iran on much lower rates, due to US pressure although Iran had already laid transmission line up to the Pakistan border years ago.