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DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Jamaat urges COAS to ?justify? extension
Jamaat urges COAS to justify extension
Wednesday, 28 Jul, 2010
The army chief should make public his agenda for his extended term, said the JI chief.
LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has demanded of Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani justify extension in his term by presenting a balance-sheet of the anti-terror operation conducted under his command in the last three years and come out with a plan for the next three years.
The army chief should make public his agenda for his extended term besides telling the nation results of the anti-terror operation launched by him, party chief Syed Munawwar Hasan told the media personnel here on Tuesday.
He said claims were being made that peace had been restored in Swat and festivals were being held there to give an impression that the people were free there.
To confirm the impression, he said, independent media should be allowed to go there as people were not ready to believe in the press releases issued by the directorate of Inter-Services Public Relations.
If the situation in Swat valley had improved, as being claimed, troops should be withdrawn from there or else the government should admit failure of its policy, he said.
He cautioned the government not to give in to American demand of conducting army operations in North Waziristan and south Punjab, otherwise terrorism would spread to every inch of the country.
He regretted that Washington itself was wooing Taliban in Afghanistan to negotiation table, but was barring Islamabad from following the suit for establishing peace in its tribal areas.
Referring to the ongoing target killing spree in Karachi, the JI leader said the port city had been left at the mercy of militants as ruling coalition partners were exposing each others role in the deteriorated law and order situation.
Seeing a foreign agenda at work behind target killings in Karachi and Balochistan, he said it was aimed at creating anarchy in the country to propagate that Pakistans nuclear assets were unsafe and these should be given under international supervision.
Hasan alleged that private US army, Blackwater, could be involved in the Data Darbar suicide bombings, while Interior Minister Rehman Malik was defending the agency.
Jamaat urges COAS to justify extension
Wednesday, 28 Jul, 2010
The army chief should make public his agenda for his extended term, said the JI chief.
LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has demanded of Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani justify extension in his term by presenting a balance-sheet of the anti-terror operation conducted under his command in the last three years and come out with a plan for the next three years.
The army chief should make public his agenda for his extended term besides telling the nation results of the anti-terror operation launched by him, party chief Syed Munawwar Hasan told the media personnel here on Tuesday.
He said claims were being made that peace had been restored in Swat and festivals were being held there to give an impression that the people were free there.
To confirm the impression, he said, independent media should be allowed to go there as people were not ready to believe in the press releases issued by the directorate of Inter-Services Public Relations.
If the situation in Swat valley had improved, as being claimed, troops should be withdrawn from there or else the government should admit failure of its policy, he said.
He cautioned the government not to give in to American demand of conducting army operations in North Waziristan and south Punjab, otherwise terrorism would spread to every inch of the country.
He regretted that Washington itself was wooing Taliban in Afghanistan to negotiation table, but was barring Islamabad from following the suit for establishing peace in its tribal areas.
Referring to the ongoing target killing spree in Karachi, the JI leader said the port city had been left at the mercy of militants as ruling coalition partners were exposing each others role in the deteriorated law and order situation.
Seeing a foreign agenda at work behind target killings in Karachi and Balochistan, he said it was aimed at creating anarchy in the country to propagate that Pakistans nuclear assets were unsafe and these should be given under international supervision.
Hasan alleged that private US army, Blackwater, could be involved in the Data Darbar suicide bombings, while Interior Minister Rehman Malik was defending the agency.