SRINAGAR: While the militant violence in Pakistan’s trade hub Karachi continued on Tuesday with TTP staging another attack in two days, Kashmir’s separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani threw his weight behind Pakistani government and termed the attacks unIslamic. The 85-year-old leader has sought Taliban Chief Mulla Umar’s support to end violence in Pakistan, asking him to “use your good offices with Pakistani Taliban and tell them they are axing the same branch of the tree on which they are sitting themselves.”
Chairman of Hurriyat Conference G while strongly condemning the “terrorist attack” on Krachi Airport and the killings of Shia pilgrims in Balochistan, said in a statement, “Pakistan was passing through the most difficult times of the history due to the conspiracy of foreign powers and the sick minded people within the country.” He appealed for a “national consensus” in Pakistan saying, “this time it is the duty and responsibility of every patriotic Pakistani to leave the differences apart and unanimously work for the safety of their country.”
According to a statement , he appealed to the Chief of Afghanistan Taliban Mullah Mohammad Umar who are fighting against the occupational forces in Afghanistan that he should use his influence in stopping the terrorist activities of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) against the Pakistan and make them understand that they are axing the same branch of the tree on which they are sitting.
Geelani has expressed his profound grief and sorrow over the death of Soldiers and civilians and said, “whoever is involved in this airport attack, they are the worst enemies of the country who are using the name of Islam and they cant produce any moral, legal or religious justification for this.”
Geelani said, “If the personnel of TTP were involved in these activities to implement the Islamic system in Pakistan then I want to tell them that Islam has neither spread through force in the past nor can this kind system of justice be implemented with the help of bombs and ammunition in future also.” He asserted that in Islam all the rights to fight the enemies and the anti-social forces have been kept reserved with the Islamic state and if this Islamic principle were changed then the lawlessness, disharmony and the anarchy will spread everywhere in the world and this will never and no way suit the principles and policies of Islam.
Geelani expressed anguish over the style of TTP’s functioning. “TTP is bypassing all the famous and great scholars of Islam and they are adopting the ways which are of their own choice and they have no argument or justification to prove this. The decisions out of emotions can destroy the human lives but these types of activities cant be fruitful for the cause and it can adversely affect the Image of Islam.”
Geelani said that according to the preliminary investigation report about the Karachi airport attack and the ammunition ceased thereof, the foreign hand into the attack cant be ruled out and if it is proved then the Pakistan government without any fear, should point out the country or the person involved in the attack. Any kind of weakness shown at this stage can prove destructive for the future.
Geelani termed the killing of Shia pilgrims in Balochistan as the worst kind of terrorist and anti-humanity activities and said that the sectarian violence was the result of a big international conspiracy against Islam and unfortunately some Muslim countries were also involved in these activities. He further said that Prophet Muhammad (SAW) had left a united Ummah but “the narrow minded, selfish and self-styled scholars shattered this Ummah into pieces.”
Geelani expressed solidarity with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan army chief Raheel Sharif and the people of Pakistan and assured them that “the oppressed people of Kashmir are with their Pakistani brethren in these trying times and we are praying for the peace, safety and stability of this country.”
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