JI asks PM Gilani to implement SC verdict on NRO

LAHORE, Jan. 22: Jamaat e Islami deputy chief Ch. Muhammad Aslam Saleemi has stressed upon Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to fulfill his promise of initiating legal action against all those taking unlawful benefit under the NRO that had been struck down by the Supreme Court. Addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said, after the SC short judgment, the Prime Minister had assured the nation and the media that the government would implement the court decision soon after its detailed judgment was issued. He said the detailed judgment had been released four days ago, therefore the Prime Minister should begin the implementation process by reopening the cases concerning billions of dollars lying in the Swiss banks. The JI deputy chief condemned the threatening statement of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates from India and warned that the US effort to build India as the regional policeman would disturb the balance of power in the area. He urged the Pakistani rulers to review their policies and build a power bloc in the area with the help of China and Iran for an effective check of the US and India’s designs. He stressed upon the patriotic masses and the political parties to join hands for foiling all enemy plans against Islam and this country. Ch. Aslam Saleemi said that the Pakistani daughter Dr Aafia Siddiqui was looking for a Muhammad Bin Qasim from behind the bars of a US jail but the Pakistani rulers were still handing over innocent citizens to the US and secret agencies in return for dollars. He said that during the current month, there had been eleven drone attacks in different areas in which dozens of innocent Pakistanis had been martyred. He called for immediate stoppage of the drone attacks or shooting down the drones.