PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chairman Hafiz Naeemur Rahman advised the government to hold off on dragging the nation toward a new blind war on Sunday, admonishing against any new military operation.
The JI chairman told the traders’ representatives, “The affairs of the country must be managed in accordance with the whims and wishes of the masses as neither politics nor business will work without peace,” according to The News.
Rahman stated that the bureaucracy, leaders, and establishment needed to own up to their mistakes and change their methods.
“The JI has a history of struggle against foreign intervention as the country has always suffered the consequences of its love for the US,” he stated.
He claimed that Pakistan’s economy lost $200 billion as a result of the US war in Afghanistan
“The situation of peace in the country has worsened and the country is passing through a paradox where nobody knows who stands with whom,” the head of the JI said.
The party’s province president, Prof. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, the deputy head, Dr. Ataur Rahman, and members of the traders flanked the JI chief as he declared that Pakistan and Afghanistan had a long and solid relationship.
