America wants to harm Pakistan, says JI Ameer
   
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=206072
Saturday, October 31, 2009

LAHORE

JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI Ameer Syed Munawwar Hasan said the foremost US target was to
destroy Pakistani institutions and unity.

Delivering Friday sermon at Mansoorah mosque here, he warned that a plot
against armed forces had also been prepared which was being continuously
advanced.

The attack at GHQ immediately after army¹s reservations on the Kerry-Lugar
Bill should be a point of consideration for the armed forces, he said.

Syed Munawwar Hasan said the armed forces had an efficient intelligence
network and by now it should have known the identity of those who attacked
the GHQ and those behind them. He said although it had become customary to
blame Taliban for every incident, but the armed forces knew much about the
Taliban. Obviously, the Taliban could not be more powerful than the army.
Such a big event could not take place without the support of a state, he
said. He said that the US hand behind the incident could not be ruled out.

The JI chief noted that four American embassy personnel had been nabbed
while moving about in Islamabad in the dead of night in vehicles with fake
number plates. They were dressed as Afghans and carrying arms and ammunition
but were released within an hour afterwards. It was the fourth incident of
this nature, he said. The question was what they had been doing in those
areas at that time and on whose orders they were freed?

Syed Munawwar Hasan said it was now being openly discussed in the media that
the US was spying about Pakistan¹s nuclear assets and some Pakistani
officials were also assisting the Americans in this. It had also been
reported that the Americans were keeping a watch at the Kahuta nuclear
facility from Sihala Police training College. This clearly implied that our
nuclear assets were under threat, and the Americans wanted to get their
control. Strangely enough, Pakistani rulers had closed their eyes to all
this, which was criminal.

He said the drone attacks were instrumental in creating hatred against the
army among the Pakhtoons and the gulf between the army and the masses was
widening.

He said the Military operation in South Waziristan could prove difficult for
the army. Therefore, the army should try to understand that it had been
trapped, and try get out of it.

Syed Munawwar Hasan urged the rulers to reject the US aid under the
Kerry-Lugar Law as the masses had turned it down in the JI referendum last
Friday.

He also challenged the government to hold referendum on this issue if it did
not have any hidden motive.