Pakistan govt to move the international Court of Justice against executions in Bangladesh :Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Speakers at a seminar in support of the pro- Pakistan leaders facing executions in Bangladesh here have stressed upon the Pakistan government to move the international Court of Justice on the violation of the tripartite agreement between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh assuring that there won’t be war crime trials.

Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, in his address, said if Islamabad took up the issue with the ICJ, the Muslim world would support her. He said the rulers in Islamabad had failed to stop the executions of Pakistan’s loyalists so far. However, he said, if the government raised the issue at this stage, large number of others who had been pronounced death sentence, could be saved. He said that death sentence had been announced against twenty five people while more than 25000 others were behind bars. They also included thousands of youth who were not born in 1971, he added.

Those who addressed the seminar held at the Lahore Press Club, included senior journalists Ataur Rahman, Sajjad Mir, Akram Chaudhry, JI foreign wing chief Abdul Ghaffar Aziz and JI Information Secretary Ameer ul Azeem.

Sirajul Haq said, if the rulers had any sense of national honour and self respect, they would have  aroused the world conscience at the very first execution in Dhaka. However, he said that Islamabad’s  conscience was dead. Islamabad is just a graveyard and my voice has died doen in this graveyard. The Lion has proved to be the lion caged in the zoo, he added.

He pointed out that Indian Premier Modi had during in his Dhaka visit, publicly confessed his role in the breakup of Pakistan. He said that Modi’s statement could have been made the basis for raising this issue.

The JI chief exhorted the rulers and the opposition to prove their loyalty towards the country and the nation ad stop making love with Modi. He said that Hasina Wajid was sending those people to the gallows who did not want Bangladesh to become Indian colony.

Sirajul Haq said besides more than 200 million Indian Muslims, the Muslims in Nepal, Bhutan and Sri n Lanka wanted sovereignty and liberation from India’s supremacy. However, he said that Pakistan  was bowing before Modi and her rulers had mentally accepted India’s supremacy.

The JI chief also deplored that the Pakistani media was not giving due importance to the people sacrificing their lives in Dhaka for Pakistan.

Addressing the seminar, Sajjad Mir said that eminent Indian intellectuals had turned their awards    in protest against Modi’s extremism. However, he said that some people in this country were still trying to shake the ideological foundations of this country. He said that had Waris Mir been alive today, he would have felt an insult to receive an award from Hasina Wajid, a puppet in India’s hands. He urged TV anchor person and journalist Hamid Mir to return the award he had received from Hasina Wajid.

Senior journalist Ataur Rahman said that those going to the gallows in Bangladesh had expiated the sins of the nation as a whole. He said that the elderly leaders of the Jamaat e Islami in Bangladesh were being punished for the sins of the rulers.