Sunni parties announces protest day against pro-Taliban policy of govt

Karachi-based leaders of Sunni parties have announced they will observe Friday as a day of protest against the PMLN government’s pro-Taliban policy that is deleterious for Pakistani nation.

Leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Ahl-e-Sunnat Action Committee and Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Allama Qazi Ahmed Noorani, Naseem Ahmed Sehar, Allama Ghulam Shabbir Qadri and other officials made this announcement at a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Thursday.

They said that outlawed Taliban and its banned affiliates such as Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and other groups continued to hit Pakistanis at will facing no action from the government against them. They said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has brought in a big negative change in Pakistan’s foreign policy on Syria. They warned that tilt towards the pro-terrorists U.S.-led alliance against Bashar al Assad’s Syrian regime is not in the interest of Pakistan and this change would help the terrorists in Pakistan to strengthen their position.

They said that the terrorists of Taliban and its affiliates have assassinated Sunni Bralevis, their eminent scholars, prayer leaders and custodians and pilgrims of the shrines of the Islamic saints. They said that the terrorists attacked security forces and civilians and destroyed government and private installations causing around US$ 100 billion financial losses to the national economy.

They appealed to people to vent their anger over the ferocity of the butchers-like terrorists of the Taliban and its affiliates and the government’s policy of the appeasement. They said that there was no Shia-Sunni tension in Pakistan but a group of fanatics impersonate them as Sunni and they could not hide them in disguise.