Naib Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Professor Khurshid Ahmad talking to the press after meeting with the British Prime Minister along with other parliamentarians expressed his appreciation for an opportunity the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani provided to the Members of the Parliament to have direct interaction with the British Prime Minister.
Normally, according to Professor Khurshid Ahmad, foreign visitors had confined their engagements to the Government representatives. It was good that opposition's voice could also reach the British Prime Minister. Professor Khurshid Ahmad raised two basic issues with the British Prime Minister. First, he invited him to objectively revisit the entire strategy of war on terror.
Ten years, according to Professor Khurshid, are too long a period not to revisit a policy that has failed to deliver. It is time, he emphasised, all those engaged in this effort should objectively review whether the outrageous and highly condemnable attack of 9/11 was a greater crime against humanity or the response under which war on terror has been unleashed in the world. The world today is much more unsafe and terror ridden.
Secondly, he said that while he had been a staunch critic of the way Colonel Qadhafi has ruled Libya he informed the British PM that an overwhelming majority of people in the Muslim-Arab World and a significant section of people even in America and Europe have very strong reservations about the American and Nato military action in Libya.
This violation of the sovereignty of a State on the pretext of humanitarian intervention is against all principles of international law and UN Charter, and is also counter-productive. What is happening is that a tyrant has been given an opportunity to appear before his people and the world as a victim of neo-colonialism? While British PM disagreed with his view, but he said it was important that the European leadership must know what the people in the Muslim world feels about the blood bath in Libya.-PR