Jamaat-i-Islami condemns Kasuri-Shalom meeting

05 Sep, 2005

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), while condemning the first official meeting between Pakistan and Israel has said that any move against Islam would be resisted. The Jamaat-e-Islami leaders vowed this at a meeting held at with JI Amir Rao Zafar Iqbal in the chair here on Sunday.
The meeting also criticised increase in petroleum prices and alleged massive rigging in the recently concluded local bodies election.
The meeting strongly opposed dialogue between foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel, saying that this was a diversion from Pakistan's principled stand, as the latter had marred the political and ideological struggle of Palestinians.
The Pakistan government, they said, was trying to redesign the country's foreign and internal policies on the advice of US and convert it into a secular state for which "The people will never forgive military rulers".
Also condemning constant increase in fuel prices, the meeting alleged that the government was trying to push people behind the wall and to create law and order situation as no other option had been left with the people except to take to streets for getting their livelihood.
Expressing concern over unparalleled rigging and use of state machinery and resources in the recent local bodies election, they accused the ruling coalition in Sindh for depriving people from their basic right to elect real leadership. The meeting was also addressed by Khurshid Kanju, Chaudhry Muhammad Latif, Kanwar Muhammad Siddique and Malik Wazir Ghazi Advocate.

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