Liaquat calls for national consensus for peace in country

LAHORE -  Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be going to India after bypassing the Parliament, the national leadership and rubbing salt on the wounds of the Kashmiris who are undergoing the tyranny of Indian Army.
In a statement on Sunday, he said that moves on foreign or diplomatic front without a national agenda would bear no fruit and lead to confusion among the masses.
He said that serious talks on any important issue were not possible at the oath-taking ceremony.
On the other hand, he said, it was a bitter fact was that the recent Indian elections were held on the basis of enmity with Pakistan and the slogan on grabbing Kashmir declaring it India’s integral part.
    Liaquat Baloch said that revival of a national Kashmir policy and fixation of priorities through national consensus for restoring peace were the biggest challenge before the country.  He lauded the people of Karachi for according a rousing welcome to the Jamaat-i-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq in the port city.
He said that Karachi was mini Pakistan and peace in the City was the need of the whole country. The people of Karachi are fed up with target killings, extortion and lawlessness, and it appears that Karachi is awakening and time is not far off when peace will return to the City through an honest, patriotic and competent leadership, he said.

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