World urged to support Muslims in Myanmar

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has said that his party would motivate all Islamic movements going on across the world against the genocide of the Muslims of Myanmar wherein the Buddhists extremists had been carrying out massacre of the Muslims in minority and were setting their homes and colonies ablaze under the government patronage. Criticising the international community’s criminal silence over the genocide of Muslims of Myanmar, he said that the international community had been quite partisan and silent over the broad day light genocide of the Muslims, which was a sheer manifest of double standard.He said this while addressing a huge protest rally in Burmi Colony late Thursday night. Muhammad Hussain Mahenti, Jamaat-e Islami Karachi, Abdul Jameel Khan, Ameer Jamaat-e Islami Bin Qasim, Jamaat-e Islami Karachi Information Secretary Zahid Askari, and other leaders also addressed on the occasion. Liaquat Baloch said that the Red Crescent and other welfare organisations at the international level should provide an opportunity to the Al-Khidmat Foundation for carrying out welfare work in Myanmar.He said that it was the obligation of the Muslims of the world that they should raise their voices against the ongoing manslaughter of the Muslims in Myanmar and leave no stone unturned in taking care of the affected Muslims. It was a matter of great concern that the government of Pakistan and political parties had ignored pathetic conditions of the Muslims there in Myanmar while the anti-Islam forces had been bent upon inflicting insult to the Muslims and the Islam all over the world. He regretted that the eminent human rights activist Aung Saan Suu Kyi was also silent over the atrocities of the Muslim minority in Myanmar and the government of Bangladesh had closed its boundaries to the migrants from Myanmar but it should open the ways to accommodate them as India being a radical Hindu dominated country would never extend humanitarian support to the affected Muslims. Jamaat-e Islami Pakistan, however, would never leave Muslims of Myanmar at the mercy of the nature, he said. Speaking on the occasion, JI Karachi Chief Mohammad Hussain Mahenti said that the Muslims were being exposed to genocide and only in Myanmar, around 90,000 Muslims were forced to leave their homes. He also condemned the world human rights organisations and international community over their silence on genocide of the Muslims.UPLIFT PROJECTS INAUGURATED AT SOCIAL SECURITY HOSPITAL LANDHI: Amir Nawab Khan here the other day inaugurated various development projects at the Social Security Hospital Landhi.The projects included emergency ward, 300 KVA generator, RCC Ramp and bed lift. The minister, who is also the chairman of the governing body of the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI), said that these projects were the needs of the hospital which have now been fulfilled. He pointed out that SESSI’s 70 percent of the budget is utilised towards the provision of the health facilities to the workers.Social Security Hospital landhi is a 215-bed hospital established in the industrial area of the metropolis.Amir Nawab said that in the current fiscal year a huge amount of Rs. 2.26 billion rupees towards the provision of health facilities to the workers.On a demand for the opening of a nursing school at the hospital, the minister asked the Commissioner SESSI, Ejaz Memon, to look into the matters and present a report in this regards.

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