ISLAMABAD - Former interior minister Rehman Malik on Monday said that sacrifices of Palestinians and Kashmiris would not go in vain and they would achieve the dream of independence from Israeli and Indian oppression.
Rehman Malik was addressing a Webinar on Palestine issue as chief guest which was also attended by a large number of speakers and audiences from across the globe.
He said, “Heart bleeds to see situation in Palestine and Kashmir where innocent and unarmed people are heartlessly massacred and human rights are violated by cruel Israeli and Indian armed forces respectively.”
He said that Muslim world had deviated from its purpose and goals and our power as ‘Ummah’ (one nation) had been shattered.
He said the Muslim world should unite as global colonial powers, including Israel and India, were directly taking advantage of the differences in the Muslim world. He urged the Muslim countries to resolve the issues of Palestine and Kashmir where Muslims were being persecuted on daily basis.
Rehman Malik said the Palestinian issue was the result of Britain’s prejudice towards Muslims and the same was the case of Kashmir. He said they left behind both the Muslim territories as disputed. He said that initially Britain had given 20 percent of Palestinian land to Jews but now they have illegally occupied 80 percent of the land.
The Pakistan People’s Party leader said that it was Britain’s strategy to leave behind burning issues and to create imbalance and instability in these regions. He said that establishment of Israel on Palestinian land was intended to create imbalances and chaos in the region.
He said the Middle East had been destabilised to divert the world’s attention from the Palestinian issue and the world knew well how Iraq, Turkey, Libya, Syria, Yemen, all these Middle Eastern countries clashed with each other. He said that all of us knew well that how the most dangerous terrorist organisation Daesh was created. He said that creation of ISIS was a dangerous plot against Muslims in the best possible way which failed. Creation of ISIS, he said, was well elaborated in his book “ISIS-Rising Monster Worldwide”.
Talking about the Indian forces brutalities in Kashmir, he said that we have been playing for seventy years on a ground which was not ours but always India instigated Pakistan. He said the international community was silent spectators on the inhumane atrocities taking place in Kashmir and Palestine and now sadly Muslim countries had also gradually decreased their support to Palestine and Kashmir due to Israel’s strong influences. He said that massacre of Muslims in Palestine by Israeli forces was by design to bring demographic changes and cause further immigration of Palestinians and the same model was replicated in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by Modi.
He said that geographical facts were being distorted both in Kashmir and Palestine. “Let me quote here the words of the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah 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.”
Rehman Malik said that the issues of Palestine and Kashmir needed to be discussed at the international level comprehensively. Peace in the Middle East could not be achieved without giving the Palestine people their rights.
He said, “We will continue to demand establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state - a state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.”
The PPP leader said that sacrifices of the Palestinian and Kashmiri brothers and sisters would not go in vain and they would achieve the dream of independence from Israeli and Indian oppression.
The Video conference on Palestine issue was organised by Palestine Foundation Pakistan and Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) of which Senator Rehman Malik is Chairman also.
The online conference was chaired by Senator Rehman Malik and was attended by Gen (Retd) Ghulam Mustafa, Senator Sitara Ayaz, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed, Senator Talha Mahmood, Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, Nasir Shirazi, and Dr. Sabir Abu Maryam. In the conference, both the Kashmir and Palestinian cause were discussed in detail.