Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that if the government did not accept the demands of the Internally Displaced Persons within thirty days, the JI would hold a sit-in in Islamabad with thousands of tribal people. While addressing a tribal Jirga at Markaz-e-Islami, Peshawar, on Thursday, he said that if others could hold sit-ins against rigging, Pushtoons could sacrifice their lives for honour.
He said that he himself would lead the sit-in, as the IDPs wanted honourable return to their homes. He said the government had been repeatedly claiming that 80 percent of the area had been cleared, therefore, the IDPs of those areas should be allowed to go home. Siraj said that the children of the tribal people also needed schools and health facilities like those in other parts of the country.
The JI chief was of the view that had a befitting response been given to Indian aggression at the Line of Control, New Delhi could not have dared to continue unprovoked firing for several days. He said that over a dozen Pakistanis had been martyred due to Indian firing during the last four days and more than forty others had been injured but the rulers in Islamabad had not given a courageous response to the enemy.
He said that the statement by the Defense Minister on the fourth day of the Indian aggression was an insult to his office. JI provincial chief Professor Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Malik Shahnawaz Khan, Khan Mirjan Wazeer, Malik Janbaz Khan Wazeer, Malik Niaz Khan Dawar and other tribal elders attended the Jirga.