All Pakistan Confectionery Association (APCA) on Friday announced to set up Rs 500 millions fund for communal violence-hit Muslims of Myanmar and India city's Ahmedabad. "We appeal to the government to provide refugee to the communal violence-hit Muslims of Myanmar and Ahmedabad," said Chairman APCA, Javed Haji Abdullah, chief of Baloch Ittehad Tehreek, Abid Hussain Brohi and traders' leader Mehmood Hamid at a joint press conference at KPC.
They appealed to the traders of Pakistan to get united to set up the fund for the support of the communal violence-hit Muslims of Myanmar and India, saying "in both countries Muslims are subjected to systematic extermination". In the continued hooliganism in Myanmar, the Muslim traders are faced with the "severest" violence and killings as their businesses were wiped off in unending communal violence, they said.
"It is our duty to voice against the killings and destruction of businesses of Muslim in Myanmar," they said, adding that the Pakistani traders' community wants the protection of Myanmar Muslims rights and shows solidarity with them. Criticising the United Nations (UN), they questioned the world body's role in stopping violence against the Muslim minorities in Myanmar and India. "Silence of UN on killings of Muslims in both the countries is creating discontent among people across the world," they observed.
Inaction of the world peace bodies to stop the "systematic" violence against Muslims in India and Myanmar has largely prompted Pakistani traders to step up fund to support financially the "underdog" communities, they pointed out. They also urged the government to cancel the MFN status to India unless it solves all long-running issues like Kashmir and Siachen disputes.