Expressing serious concerns over the riots and killings in Gilgit-Baltistan, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan termed it a conspiracy to plunge the area into turmoil. He said that disturbance was being created in G-B under a conspiracy, as it was a sensitive area being defence line of the country.
Munawar deplored that situation in Balochistan was alarming, Karachi was in the grip of target killers and extortionists, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was facing drone attacks while the Punjab was facing riots due to loadshedding and price hike. "This shows that the government has miserably failed on all fronts and is unable to maintain law and order. The proper course for the government is to quit and hand over power to an interim set up for elections," he added. The JI chief decried the conviction of eminent Kashmiri leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, by a US court and said this was to please India.
He alleged that the rulers had withdrawn from the country's principle stance on Kashmir to please Washington and had declared India the Most Favoured Nation forgetting its brutalities in Kashmir. Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, has called upon the Supreme Court to take notice of the pressure being built on the two Jaccobabad women who embraced Islam. In a statement, he condemned the Sindh government and district administration for handing over the women to a "Hindu lobby" which according to him was pressurising them to revert to their old religion.