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| Jamaat gives strike call for February 5 |
| 2009-02-03 |
| Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Sunday gave a call for a shutter-down strike across the country on February 5 to express solidarity with people of Kashmir. Addressing a news conference here at the residence of Mian Muhammad Aslam, Qazi said all the governments had failed on diplomatic fronts to highlight the Kashmir issue in its true spirit and to respond to India's propaganda in this connection.He thanked the successive governments for supporting the JI's stance of observing February 5 as the Kashmir Solidarity Day since 1990. "I call upon the people all over the country to participate in the activities being organised to express solidarity with the Kashmiri people," he said. He said the government needed to review its Kashmir policy and give a befitting response to India for its worldwide propaganda on the issue. He regretted that India had not moved an inch from its illegitimate stance while Pakistan had presented various options for the settlement of the dispute. He said the Pakistan government should also explain the history of Kashmir to the world leaders and the youth. Qazi said the doors for any improvement in relations with India would open only once it accepted Kashmir as a disputed territory. |
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