ISLAMABAD - Former interior minister and Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms Rehman Malik has said that Pakistan is going through an extraordinary situation at present as India is conspiring against Pakistan day and night.
He said that in recent days there had been attacks inside Pakistan from across the border of Afghanistan in which soldiers of our Armed Forces were martyred and injured. He said that despite the agreement between two countries, India was constantly violating across the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary.
In an interview with a private TV channel, Rehman Malik said that our weak economy had been further ruined by the coronavirus pandemic, which was destabilised earlier by FATF. “If we do not pay attention to our economy and do not take extraordinary steps, the coming days will be very tough for the country.”
He said that putting aside political differences, both opposition and government needed to meet their heads in larger national interests to take the country out of crises. He said if both opposition and government did not come together to formulate a joint strategy to take the country out of current situation, the country would face more problems in future.
Rehman Malik said that FATF had done a lot of harm to Pakistan’s economy on behalf of India as India had launched a fake propaganda against Pakistan which was exposed by DisinfoLab Eu. He said “I had promised the nation that I would take India to FATF and today I am happy that FATF has started an investigation against India for money laundering and terror financing.” He said that it was no more secret that India was involved in money laundering and terror financing and no one, including FATF, was speaking and taking action against India. He said that he would like to inform the nation that so far he had written several letters to FATF adding in some letters he had requested to remove Pakistan from the gray list in wake of coronavirus and in other he had requested to take action against India. He said that he had sent all evidences and proofs against India to FATF.
The former interior minister said that in recent days he had written a letter to the Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in which he had demanded an immediate inquiry against India over the proliferation of nuclear materials. He said the IAEA should convene an emergency meeting on the private uranium trade in India and the United Nations should take steps to prevent such public sale and purchase of uranium. He said that western countries were silent on the issue of open sale and purchase of uranium by private dealers in India even though terrorists could use uranium to make dirty bombs.
Rehman Malik said, “Politics is in its place but when it comes to national issues, I have always raised voice first. I have never been silent on external conspiracies against Pakistan and have always given priority to national interest on everything.”
Speaking on the issue of Palestine, Senator Rehman Malik said that he was deeply saddened by the massacre of innocent Muslims in Palestine by Israel. He said he wished that all Islamic countries would come together today and the Ummah would raise a strong voice on every issue so neither Israel nor India would have dared to oppress Palestinian and Kashmiri Muslims. He said today no country in the world had an Islamic system of government but the Muslim majority countries were called Islamic countries and not because of the Islamic style of government there. He said that most of the Islamic countries were not moving forward for the unity of the Ummah due to the fear of the West.
He said, “Sadly all international bodies, including the United Nations, are silent on the massacre of Palestinians.”
He said Prime Minister Imran Khan was on a visit to Saudi Arabia when the Al-Aqsa Masjid was being attacked and it would have been better if Muhammad bin Salman and Imran Khan had issued a joint statement against Israel with one voice and have proposed to convene a joint meeting of Islamic countries. He said that Indian Prime Minister Modi was also following the Israeli model just as Israel was genociding the oppressed Palestinians to bring demographic change in Palestine, similarly Modi was massacring Muslims in Kashmir to reduce their majority.
He appealed to the heads of Muslim countries to wake up and break their silence on Kashmir and Palestine.
Discussing the national political situation, Rehman Malik said that the PDM had taken a very wrong step by issuing a show-cause notice to the PPP which it should take back with an apology. He said that PPP had been victimised in the name of accountability in every era and Khurshid Shah was still in jail facing victimisation. He said that we had to see whether accountability was taking place in our country or political victimisation was taking place in the name of accountability as there was a very thin line difference between accountability