Pak Parliamentary Secretary for Defence calls for jihad to get Kashmir

The Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Major (retired) Tanvir Hussain Syed, has claimed that through jihad, Pakistan could acquire Kashmir in six months.

Islamabad, Aug 8 : The Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Major (retired) Tanvir Hussain Syed, has claimed that through jihad, Pakistan could acquire Kashmir in six months.

Syed called for sending "jihadis" to Kashmir, because Pakistan would never be able to get Kashmir through negotiations.

He stressed the need for announcing a 'jihad' against India and the US during a debate on Pakistan's foreign policy with a special focus on Pak-US relations.

India and US wanted to take control of Kashmir to keep a check on China, the Dawn quoted him, as saying.

Syed also asked the government to recognise the Taliban as a force in Afghanistan.

"Be it the mountains of Waziristan, Kashmir or the land of Punjab, there should be only one slogan 'Al-Jihad, Al-Jihad, Al-Jihad'," he said.

Minister of State for Environment Malik Amin Aslam expressed concern over the India-US nuclear deal, and said that Pakistan's soldiers were dying and the US was asking us to "do more."

He said that the US presidential candidates by threatening attacks on Pakistan and Islam's holy places were actually committing terrorism and should be disqualified from contesting the election.

M.P. Bhandara, a minority community legislator, also belonging to the PML, called for renewing contact with Mullah Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban, in order to resolve the ongoing crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bhandara proposed that Pakistan should bring the US, NATO, Western powers and Mullah Omar to the negotiating table to resolve the Afghan issue, which was also affecting Pakistan.

ANI