Scrape Pak-Afghan transit trade pact: SCBA

LAHORE The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has strongly reacted to the Pakistans transit trade pact with India and Afghanistan at a time when their agencies are involved in terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Secretary of the Bar Raja Zulqarnain condemning the agreement in question Monday alleged it was evident that bomb blasts, terrorist activity and target-killings in Pakistan were going on under the patronage of Blackwater, CIA, Indian intelligence agency RAW, and Israeli agency Mosad, and that Nato was transporting arms and ammunition in their trailers through Pakistan and now the same trailers would come from India to fuel more terrorism and bloodbath widening its scope even outside Pakistan. Raja claimed that the supply of arms and ammunitions would further ignite sectarianism in Pakistan. He also condemned what he termed pressure by the US Secretary of State and other US officials to enter this agreement which our 'slave rulers accepted. He said America had thrust its own war on Pakistan. He said if America was so worried about prosperity of Pakistan why it was impeding our agreement of gas pipeline with Iran and Civil Nuclear energy deal with China when the fact was this (that) Pakistani economy was starving of electricity shortage which was the real cause of its economic hardships. The transit trade agreement, he said, was a clear attempt to destroy our Gwadar Port and give RAW a free hand under the garb of trade. Raja Zulqarnain further said that India which claimed itself the biggest democracy in the world, stood exposed of its claim after withdrawing from gas pipeline project with Iran on the behest of America. He alleged that the US was playing the principal terrorist role in the world by dictating every other nation its own terms disregarding others interests and needs. He called for cancellation of the agreement in question and appealed to all democratic forces in the world to help Pakistan get rid of RAW, CIA, and Mosad. Pact signed under US pressure: JI The Pak-Afghan transit trade agreement signed under US pressure is deadly to Pakistans interests and has been rightly rejected by all political, religious parties besides industrial and business communities, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch said here on Monday. In a press statement, he said the agreement was virtually aimed at serving Indias interests and unfortunately, the Pakistani rulers were faithfully accepting the US dictation even at the cost of national solidarity and integrity. Liaquat Baloch said that the US had unleashed a wave of terrorism in the region while its strategic partner, India, was destabilizing this country through Afghanistan. He said that the after facing a clear defeat in Afghanistan, the US was pressurising Islamabad to Do More. He urged the rulers to see reason, pull out of the US war, stop military operation in the tribal areas and start dialogue with taliban.

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