Thousands of Jamaat-e-Islami activists staged a protest sit-in on at M. Jinnah Road, asking the US and its allied forces to leave the war-torn Afghanistan to end the decade-long occupation of the country. The two-day protest sit-in of Jamat-e-Islami against "imperialism" of the US, started here on Saturday, which was attended by thousands of people waving JI flags and carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogan of "Go America Go."
Addressing the mass gathering, JI chief, Syed Munawar Hassan, urged them to uphold the Islamic norms and reject the US world order. He said that Islamic order would be enforced to solve the problems which the humanity was facing because of the US and capitalists world's policies, creating chaos in countries.
He rejected the unipolar US order, military aggression and occupation of weak countries, asking the superpower to quit Afghanistan and stop pressuring Pakistan for achieving its military and economic goals in the region. Hassan lauded and glorified the Pakhtuns and Afghans for their resistance against the superpower's occupation of Afghanistan, saying that the brave nation was defeating the invaders.
He claimed his party's slogan "Go America Go", became popular among the masses, who wanted the US to pack up so that peace and harmony could return to Afghanistan. He lauded slain al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden for his resistance against the US and Zionists in the world, saying, "Osama bin Laden is the symbol of resistance against the US."
He said the US had violated international laws by invading Afghanistan and Iraq, as none of the alleged perpetrators of 9/11 attacks were from these countries. He was of the view that the US had planned much before the 9/11 attacks to invade the Muslim countries to subjugate their people and control their resources.
The JI chief said the US and its allies were facing resistance only from the Muslims and particularly from Pakhtuns and Afghans, whom they believed their prime enemies and therefore were killing them brutally. From skies the US drones were bombarding Pakhtuns and from land Pakistan Army was shelling them to death, he regretted, saying "if Pakhtuns are not loyal to Pakistan then no one in this country is."
He said the Pakhtuns had got freed Azad Kashmir from India, fought wars along Pakistan Army and now resisting the US and allied forces in the region. He asked the chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani to call back Army from Malakand agency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and end the so-called war against terrorism.
Hassan urged the government and military leadership to review their policies on war on terror, which adversely affected Pakistan's interests in the world. He observed the Abbotabad and PNS Mehran incidents were reflection of the government's pro-US policies. He said the way previous superpowers Britain and USSR had been defeated in Afghanistan, the US would soon meet the same fate.
He called Afghanistan "the graveyard of US," saying the invader was facing defeat at the hands of unarmed Pakhtuns despite the capitalist world had injected billion of dollars in the war against Afghans, with sophisticated weapons and global support. JI chief also slammed the leadership of ANP, which is ruling Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, for supporting US despite that Pakhtuns were offering strong resistance against the invaders in Afghanistan.
ANP supported Gandhi when Pakhtuns were supporting Pakistan's creation. This party was supporting the then the USSR when the same nation was fighting Jihad against the communist aggression, he maintained. He urged the nation to support Afghans against the US forces He also called upon the nation to uphold Islamic philosophy to end bloodshed, poverty, chaos and terrorism from the country. The sit-in would resume on Sunday afternoon.