Religious forces oppose MFN status

LAHORE Leaders of various religious parties has condemned federal cabinets decision of giving India Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status, saying a country which massacred millions of Muslims does not deserve this favour. Jamaat-ud-Dawaa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed Wednesday said this decision of the cabinet tantamount to damaging the roots of the Pakistan ideology. He maintained that bestowing MFN status on India would not only damage the freedom struggle in the Occupied Kashmir but could also compromise countrys national security. He said that the government instead of taking such actions must make efforts to free Pakistani waters from India. India never accepted the existence of Pakistan and the nation would never accept MFN status for India, he added. JI Secretary-General Liaquat Baloch said that PPP has cheated all the political forces once again through this non-consensual action. He said this decision was against the joint declaration of All Parties Conference (APC) and it would create hurdles in the way of freedom struggle of Kashmiris. The JI leader held that the decision was a continuation of the policies of the dictatorial regime of Pervez Musharraf. Liaquat said that trade with India would prove a 'killing pill for the economy and security of the country. He said that India would inflict serious damages on the economy of the country by misusing this status. Azadi-e-Jammu and Kashmir chief Hafiz Saifullah Mansoor and Hafiz Khalid Bin Waleed warned the 'parliament of fake degree holders against giving MFN status to India without the consent of the people of the country. They said that Founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam, had called the Kashmir as the jugular vein of Pakistan, but the current government was bent upon surrendering the jugular vein to arch rival India. They said that the nation would never accept this decision, as the Indian occupation forces were butchering Kashmiris.

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