Pakistan should not withdraw even an inch from its stance on Kashmir:Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq , has said that Pakistan should not withdraw even an inch from its national and principled stance on Kashmir as India could not keep the Kashmiris her slaves for long.

Addressing a large Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that the Kashmiris must get the right to self determination under the international law. He said that talks with India without the Kashmir issue would be of no use. He appreciated Islamabad’s decision of refusing to host the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference.

The JI chief said that any attempt to tamper with the ideological foundations of the country would damage its geographical boundaries as well. He said the constitution did not allow the citizens to obey the rulers at the cost of disobeying Allah Almighty.

He appealed to the Chief Justice Jawad S. Khawaja to take suo moto notice of the apex court majority judgment in the 21^st amendment case which had not addressed the doubts in regard to the Islamic provisions of the constitution lurking in the public mind. He said that the democracy of France, US or Britain could not be the model for Pakistan because that would render the huge sacrifices made by our forefathers for this Muslim state as meaningless.  He said the JI would obstruct every attempt to alter the Islamic character of the constitution. He said those who wanted to delete the articles 62 and 63 of the constitution were paving the way for the rule of dacoits and plunderers.

Sirajul Haq said that the model before the nation was the state of Madina and not England or Turkey. He said that the decisions of our superior judiciary should reflect the wishes of the masses of the country and be in line with the constitution. The nation, he said, would accept only such a form of democracy as was explained in the constitution which declared the Quran and the Sunnah as the supreme law of the land.

He lauded Chief Justice Khawaja’s bold decision by writing his note of dissent in a court judgment in Urdu language and also by taking the oath of his high office in the national language said this had raised the head of the masses high. He urged the learned Chief Justice to take further steps for granting the national language its rightful place in the society.  He said the JI was not against any language but it believed that the national language must get its due respect and status. The JI also wanted the promotion of the regional languages, he added.