 Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed Saturday opposed the trend of forming armed Lashkars in the NWFP and the tribal belt, terming it as a conspiracy to ignite civil war in the country.
| Raising a tehreek full of armed and dangerous turbans who control large swatches of state territory and carry out warfare against neighboring states certainly wouldn't do it. |
"The uprising of masses and taking arms against own people is a conspiracy being hatched by anti-state elements seeking militarisation of the society," Qazi told an Eid Milan party at Shahi Bagh.
| Taliban forces conducting warfare against the national army and chopping people's heads off wouldn't do that. |
Flanked by former MNA Shabir Ahmed Khan and Jamaat spokesman Muhammad Iqbal, Qazi opposed formation of the tribal Lashkars in Bajaur Agency, Kurram Agency, Darra Adamkhel and other areas and expressed the fear that the situation might lead to a civil war. "The government is pushing the NWFP and Fata towards the conditions created in erstwhile East Pakistan which led to the Dhaka debacle," he alleged.
| Certainly JI had an interesting role in that... |
The masses are not willing to support the Army in the ongoing operation unless the Army gives up fighting for the US agenda in the region, the Jamaat chief said.
| "I personally checked with the masses, and that's what they told me." |
Commenting on the ongoing insurgency in the region, he said it was America's conspiracy to deprive Pakistan of its nuclear assets. The US does not want to see Pakistan as a powerful country and the ongoing militancy and insurgency, he said, is a tool to destabilise the country.
| "If it wasn't for the U.S., none of this would be happening." |
About the religious parties' reluctance to stand up against the militant organisations, Qazi said: "Anti-state elements have joined militant organisations funded by America and India. It's now the responsibility of the intelligence agencies to search out these elements and make public their identities."
| Which sez absolutely zip about the incestuous relationship between the fundo parties and the hard boyz. |
About the suicide attack in Wali Bagh, Qazi said the perpetrators of such heinous crimes wanted to spread chaos in the country. Those shedding blood of innocent Muslims, Taliban or other groups, are agents of the US and India, he said. The seed of the existing insurgency in Pakistan was sown by former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf when he decided to appease America by crushing his own people setting aside the country's interest, he claimed.
| Can't argue with that sort of logic, I guess... |
The Jamaat chief said that Pakistan should abandon its policy of following American policies and that seems to be the only solution to all its problems. "We have not yet accepted the set-up as democratic as Musharraf's policies are still being followed," he said. |