The JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has warned of a countrywide protest in Pakistan over the visit of the Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Islamabad to attend the SAARC ministerial conference. He also accused Mr. Singh of being “responsible for the killings of innocent Kashmiris”.
The mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack said in a statement that, “I want to ask the Pakistani government will it add insult to injury to the wounds of Kashmiris by welcoming Rajnath who is responsible for the killings of innocent Kashmiris.”
“It will be ironical as on the one hand the whole Pakistani nation is protesting against the Indian atrocities in Kashmir and on the other hand the Pakistani rulers will be garlanding Singh,” said the issued statement.
“If Singh comes to Islamabad on August 3, the JuD would hold countrywide protest to tell the world that the Pakistani rulers might have compulsions to receive Kashmiris’ killers but the people of Pakistan are siding with oppressed Kashmiris,” he added.
Adding to this, he said that, they will hold the protest demonstrations and rallies taken out in Islamabad, Karachi, Quetta, Multan, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad, Faisalabad, Lahore and other cities across the country.
He added that protest demonstrations will be held and taken out rallies on August 3 in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Muzaffarabad and other cities of the country.
Saeed, who is carrying a $ 10 million US bounty on his head, said that, the people of Kashmir had refused to meet Mr. Singh during his Srinagar visit. The PML—N government “must also refuse to receive the BJP leader on the excuse that it may hurt and incite feelings of Kashmiris and Pakistanis.”
Meanwhile, Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander Syed Salahuddin asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to immediately recall its ambassador from New Delhi and “suspend trade and diplomatic ties” with India in the wake of ongoing unrest in the Valley that have left 49 people dead following Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani’s killing.
The Pakistani government should not have invited Mr. Singh to the SAARC conference, he said.
“Ailing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should at least recall Pakistan’s ambassador from New Delhi and suspend trade and diplomatic ties with India. The rulers should give up hypocrisy and the Pakistan government should either plead the case of Kashmiris or make friends with India,” Salahuddin said while addressing the ‘Azadi Kashmir March’ on Sunday evening.
He said curfew had been clamped in Kashmir for the past 23 days and the Valley had turned into a ‘volcano for India that could explode any time’
“It would have been better if the Pakistani government had not the Indian home minister in SAARC conference as it would give a wrong message to the Kashmiris,” he said.
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