 Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said on Friday that sardars (tribal chiefs), capitalists and generals were exploiting people to protect their interests.
| "Holy men don't do that sort of thing. We'd never think of such a thing!" |
Speaking at a seminar organised by the MMA on the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day, Qazi who is also the ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, said the MMA would launch the second phase of agitation that would organise caravans and million marches to get rid of these exploiters who had compromised the country's interests for theirs. He called Kashmir's liberation an unfinished agenda of the partition of the subcontinent. "The independence of Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir's accession to Pakistan. We support the Kashmir struggle politically and militarily," he added. Qazi said that Kashmiris launched their armed struggle for their self-determination after the world bodies including the United Nations had disappointed them. He said that more than 90,000 people had been killed and 25,000 women raped during an armed struggle in Kashmir. "We will not let the government forget Kashmiris' sacrifices," he said.
| Now, I've been watching the carnage in Kashmir for three years and a bit. Most of the corpses I've seen have been caused by the jihadis, most of whom are Paks. I think the 90,000 figure that Qazi and Hafiz Saeed are so fond of slinging are mostly Bad Guyz, which I'll admit is a considerable pile of used flesh. |
He said India had always said that Pakistan had occupied a part of Kashmir while Pakistani generals were talking of Kashmir's partition on regional and ethnic grounds. "The people of Pakistan and Kashmir will never accept [President Pervez] Musharraf's formula," he said. |