Rehman Malik stands tall with strong determination
Newswire
Islamabad: PPP’s senior leader Rehman Malik has stood tall among the Pakistani politicians for his strong determination and commitment to the Palestine and the Kashmir cause.
The PPP veteran has also defend Pakistan as Islamabad faced the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) amid economic crisis. His struggle has not gone in waste as action was taken in all cases.
In a recent statement, Rehman Malik said the sacrifices of people of Palestine and Kashmir will not go waste and they will achieve the dream of independence from Israel and India’s oppression.
“The heart bleeds to see the situation in Palestine and Kashmir, where innocent and unarmed people are massacred and human rights are violated by cruel Israeli and Indian armed forces respectively,” he said.
Malik said the Muslim world has deviated from its purpose and goals and our power as ‘Ummah’ one nation has been shattered. He said the Muslim world must unite as global colonial powers, including Israel and India, are directly taking advantage of the differences in the Muslim world.
He urged the Muslim countries to resolve the issue of Palestine and Kashmir where Muslims are being persecuted on daily basis. “The Palestinian issue was the result of Britain’s prejudice towards Muslims and the same is the case of Kashmir,” he added. He said they left behind both the Muslim territories as disputed.
On another occasion, he said the international community was silent spectator on the inhumane atrocities taking place in Kashmir and Palestine and now sadly Muslim countries have gradually decreased their support to Palestine and Kashmir due to Israel’s strong influences.
He said the massacre of Muslims in Palestine by Israeli forces is by design to bring demographic changes and cause further immigration of Palestinians and the same model is replicated in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K) by Indian premier Narendera Modi.
He said geographical facts are being distorted both in Kashmir and Palestine. He said let me quote here the words of Quaid-i-Azam, who said “The Muslims of subcontinent would not remain as mere spectators. They would help the Arabs in Palestine by all possible means”. But we saw who recognised occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” he added. Malik said issues of Palestine and Kashmir need to be discussed at the international level comprehensively.
He said peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved without giving the Palestine people their rights. “We will continue to demand the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state – a state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital,” he added.
On the FTAF issue, Rehman Malik had vociferously protested the greylisting. He had even noted crippling losses to the tunes of $38 billion incurred to Pakistan’s economy because of the time it remained on the notorious list.
Rehman Malik said the ongoing pandemic further dented the country’s weak economy that posed a bigger threat than the FATF and if the situation could not be controlled, then the coming days would be very tough for the entire country. He suggested all the stakeholders, including both opposition and government, to put aside their political differences in the larger national interests.
He concluded that if the opposition and the government could not come together to formulate a joint strategy to take the country out of the prevailing situation, then the country would face more problems in future.
The former interior minister revealed that in the recent days, he has also written a letter to the Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in which he demanded an immediate inquiry against India over the proliferation of nuclear materials.
He suggested the IAEA to convene an emergency meeting on privately trading uranium in India and also emphasised the United Nations to take action to prevent such private sale and purchase of uranium that posed threats to the entire humanity.
