Govt warned against reopening of NATO supply routes
30 January, 2012
MULTAN: Leaders of the Pakistan Defence Council (PDC) on Sunday warned the government against reopening of the NATO supply routes, threatening strikes and sit-ins if the rulers compromised on the issue. Addressing a public meeting at Multan Sports Ground, the leaders said that they strongly opposed any compromise over the blood of Pakistan Army and tribal brothers in return for dollars. They warned that if NATO supply lines were restored, people from Karachi to Khyber would take to roads and stop the containers forcibly. PDC Chairman Maulana Samiul Haq in his address demanded that drone attacks should be stopped immediately and policies of former president Pervez Musharraf should be done away with. He said that instead of supporting Americans, they would resort to the path of jehad. Samiul Haq said that they wanted peace and stability in the country but if US, India, Israel or any other power dared aggression, they would be responded to with full force, adding that the whole nation was united for the defence of Pakistan. He said that India, which was responsible for the killings of tens of thousands of Muslims, could not be given the status of Most Favoured Nation. Jamaatud Dawa chief Professor Hafiz Muhammad Saeed warned against opening of NATO supply lines and said that people present in the meeting with sticks and flags would come out on roads and stop all the containers. He urged that Pakistan must get out of the US-led war and should fight a war to secure freedom of Kashmir. Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Pakistan President Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi said that no conspiracy would be allowed against the security of Pakistan. He said that people of Pakistan would fully back the PDC leaders to prevent acts of rulers against the interests of the country. Former ISI DG General (r) Hameed Gul said the common target of US, India and Israel was Pakistan. He regretted that Musharraf and his successors arrested their Muslim brothers and handed them over to Americans. Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan said the rulers were not following their oath and had allowed Americans to strengthen their hold in Pakistan. He said the attack on the GHQ was the handiwork of American and Indian agencies and not of any religious party. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad of the Awami Muslim League said that if people would vote for thieves and plunderers, the result would be disasterous. He said the rulers had destroyed Railways, PIA and Pakistan Steel Mills and borrowed much more than the last 60-year borrowings. End.
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