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Major parties say IDPs have right to go anywhere
: Nisar Mehdi
KARACHI - Leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
(PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman (JUI-F) on Monday
said that the residents of operation-hit areas had keep the
constitutional right to move anywhere in Pakistan.
They criticised the MQM for playing dual role by enjoying perks in
the government and simultaneously playing a role of Opposition by
supporting the call for strike.
“The internally displaced persons are Pakistanis and they should be
helped on humanitarian ground,” urged Professor Ghafoor Ahmed, JI’s
deputy chief. He said it were the Sindhis who welcomed the migrants
from India in late 1940s and 1950s.
“We don’t say Sindh is an orphanage. But, it is tragic to adopt a
negative approach towards the IDPs because they are too Pakistanis
and now they are facing multiple problems in Malakand Agency and its
surrounding areas,” he added.
Ahmed said that Pakistan was being entrapped into internal and
external threats and conspiracies, and the unity of the nation was
must to counter and defeat these threats and machinations.
PML-N provincial acting president Salim Zia said that MQM’s politics
transcended its comprehension because they were in the government,
but they support the call for a strike that was against the
government policy. “When any other party calls for shutdown strike,
MQM raises hue and cry that commercial shutdown will cause colossal
financial losses, but for the last two days they have virtually held
Karachi hostage by strikes,” he added.
Zia urged the MQM leadership to reconsider its policy about the IDPs
because no Pakistani can be denied for entry into any part of
Pakistan. He said that MQM chief Altaf Hussain should return to
country instead of leading the MQM through remote control from
London. He said MQM’s Karachi-based leadership couldn’t take right
decisions without Altaf Hussain in Karachi.
The Nation:By: May 26, 2009 |
