JIP joins the countrywide mourning for the students and teachers martyred in the Peshawar terrorist attack

Lahore: The Jamaat e Islami joined the countrywide mourning for the students and teachers martyred in the Peshawar terrorist attack with a Ghaibana Namaz e Janaza held outside Mansoora.

JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch, who led the funeral prayer, vehemently condemned the terrorist attack and demanded that the hidden hand behind the attack be exposed and the nation informed of that. He said that all the forces against Islam and Pakistan had ganged up to crush the Muslims. He said the US and its allies had disturbed the world peace and the Muslims were being  targeted in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

He said the world at large was in search of peace and it was imperative that the world powers reviewed their policies and abandoned their biases against Islam and the Muslims. He said the situation also demanded that the national leadership sat together, to meet the challenges.

Liaqat Baloch said that Pakistan had suffered highest loss of life and property of the 9/11 fallout  as the US and India were commanding terrorist activities inside Pakistan from Afghanistan. He said the entire Muslim world was in grief over the Peshawar tragedy.

The JI SG said that the so called war on terror had cost lives of more than 60,000 people besides financial losses of billions of dollars. The country was confronted with several crises and had been virtually turned into the centre of terrorism.

Speaking on the occasion, JI deputy chief Hafiz Muhammad Idrees said that after the 9/11, Pakistan had been the target of terrorism and subversive activities, but no government had thought of pulling out of the US war for freeing the masses from terrorists’ grip. . He said the  Black Water were roaming about freely in the country. 

JI deputy chief and ex-MNA Mian Muhammad Aslam, said that the Peshawar terrorist attack indicated that the security agencies were not discharging their duties properly. He said the Peshawar tragedy was a well planned conspiracy in which US and India were involved.

Maulana Abdul Maalik, JI deputy SG, Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha and Punjab chief Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar also spoke on the occasion.

Meanwhile, Director General, Islamic Education Organization, Pakistan, Misbahul Huda Siddiqi, in a statement here, expressed deep grief over the heavy loss of life in the terrorist attack at the Army Public School, Peshawar, and said the tragedy had plunged the entire Muslim world in grief. He appealed to the educational institutions to pray for the bereaved families and also to keep a vigilant eye on the miscreants around them.

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