US Consul General Zachary Harkenrider calls on Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore : Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has impressed upon the United States to play her role in stopping the brutalities of the occupation troops in Held Kashmir and ensuring the grant of the right of self determination to the Kashmiris in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiris and the UN resolutions. He was talking to the outgoing US Consul General in the Punjab capital, Zachary Harkenrider, who called on him at Mansoora on Tuesday. .

The JI chief also suggested to the US to review her policy towards the Muslim world by extending support to the democratic forces instead of the dictators, thereby ending the impression that Washington was hostile to Islam and the Muslims.

He pointed out that the US had invaded Iraq and Afghanistan without any just cause and lakhs of innocent Muslims were killed in these countries because of which there was great resentment among the Muslims towards the US.

While appreciating the efforts of the outgoing diplomat for improving the ties between the US and Pakistan during his tenure, the JI chief said that  the US should use her  influence for stopping the repression of the Indian occupation forces in Held Kashmir. The US, he said, should pressurize New Delhi and the UN for the quick solution of the Kashmir issue that had created the threat of a clash between two nuclear powers of the south Asia.

Sirajul Haq also called upon the US to take notice of the policies of the Bangladesh government as was victimizing the opposition, especially the JI leadership there. He said that the legal status of the so called tribunals of the BD regime had not been accepted by the world at large. urged the US to prevail upon Dhaka regime to honour the tripartite agreement between Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, for ending the cases related to the 1971 events and scrapping their sentence by the so called war crimes tribunal.