Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Syed Munawwar Hasan, has said that peace in South Asia was impossible without an end of US interference in Afghanistan and Pakistan besides the resolution of the Kashmir issue.
In a statement on the occasion of US President Barack Obama's visit to India, he said that Pakistan-India relations could not improve without resolving the core issue of Kashmir. It was therefore the responsibility of the United Nations and world powers to resolve this issue in accordance with the UN resolutions by pressurising India. A nuclear war between the two counties could engulf the entire world, he warned.
He said the Kashmiris were fighting the war of independence. They were not getting any moral or material support from outside and every day. Scores of them were being killed by the occupation troops. India's state terrorism in Held Kashmir had broken all records but the US and other world powers had shut their eyes to that. The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other leading human rights bodies besides the OIC had expressed deep concern over the state terrorism in Held Kashmir but none of these was taking any practical steps in support of the oppressed Kashmiris.
The JI chief said that the US's so called war on terror was practically a war against Islam and the Muslims alone were its target. On the other hand, the US was fully backing state terrorism by India and Israel. The US and its allies first attacked Iraq and killed millions of the Iraqis. Afghanistan became their next target and now Pakistan was the victim of its terrorism.
He said, the short sighted Pakistani rulers offered logistic support and the country's airspace and airports to the US acting as US's front - line state. The US could not dare to attack Afghanistan without Islamabad's support, he added. Despite that, Washington had never supported Pakistan. During his current India tour, President Obama had not even mentioned Kashmir and had even refused to mediate on the Kashmir issue.