Paindabad Conference rejects trade with India

ISLAMABAD - Pledging to make Pakistan a modern Islamic welfare state, the Pakistan Paindabad Conference Thursday vowed to continue its struggle to uphold the sovereignty of the beloved motherland at all costs.

The conference, held at a local hotel under the auspices of Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust, Islamabad Chapter, was presided over by its chairman and Editor-in-Chief TheNation, Majid Nizami.
The speakers while addressing the conference made it clear that the nuclear-armed nation can also defend the ideology of Pakistan. They reiterated their firm resolve that the trade with India was unacceptable for themselves until and unless the Kashmir and water issues are resolved.
Majid Nizami took oath from the participants of the conference that the basic ideology of Pakistan would be protected and promoted while stability and integrity of Pakistan would be given top priority. ‘Paindabad Conferences’ are being held throughout the country under the directives of Majid Nizami with an aim to disseminate the message both at national and international level that Pakistan based on strong ideological and cultural foundations is a vibrant state and that had bravely faced many disasters. Such conferences further convey the message that the conspiracies of the enemies of Pakistan as well as of Islam will be foiled and the country will rise as one of the greatest nations of Asia.

Former Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed was the chief guest on the occasion. Former Chief of Army Staff Lt General (Retd) Mirza Aslam Baig, Lt General (Retd) Hamid Gul, President Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust (NPT) Lt General (Retd) Abdul Qayyum, former prime minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, Editor the Pakistan Sardar Khan Niazi, Editor Jinnah Khushnood Ali Khan, and Vice President NPT Arif Sheikh were the key speakers on the occasion. Malik Fidaur Rehman, Joint Secretary NPT and Zafar Bakhtawari, Secretary NPT performed the duties of stage secretary on the occasion. Besides many former ambassadors, civil society representatives, retired army officers, politicians, lawyers, students and members of NPT, Lt General (Retd) Majeed Malik, Dr Khalida Samar Mand Mubarak were also among the important participants of the conference.
Chairman Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust, Majid Nizami while emphasising upon the importance of ideology of Pakistan Friday said that Pakistan might not come into being without its existence.
Majid Nizami said that the decision to hold Paindabad Conferences throughput the country was taken at a time when some news reports appeared in the press that Pakistan would no more be a part of the world map after some years. “We decided that Pakistan would live forever,” he added. He further said that though the country was broken into two pieces in 1971, Bangladesh did not become part of India and it was an independent state. He emphasised that India is the enemy of Bangladesh in the same way as it was of Pakistan.

He while congratulating General (Retd) Abdul Qayyum for holing such a marvellous moot opined that the new generation should know why Pakistan came into being and if it was not there how much they would be in bad condition. He further said that the youth should know who are Hindus and who are Jews? He said that whosoever would challenge Pakistan, it would face severs resistance.
“Some people question about the ideology of Pakistan and I say that if it had not been there, there might have no existence of Pakistan,” he stressed. He recalling his past days passed with the Hindus before partition of 1947 said that Hindus used to treat Muslims in a very inhuman and discriminatory way. “We were not allowed to enter their houses as they believe our entry will make these unclean,” he informed.
Majid Nizami said that people used to question what they got from Pakistan. “I think that at the time of creation of Pakistan, people had not belongings and now they have each and every thing of the necessity of life and all this is because of Pakistan,” he answered.
He said that the people would decide that whether or not Nawa-i-Waqt always raised its voice of truth against the oppressive rulers. He said that the first martial law dictator of Pakistan, Ayub Khan banned the government advertisements and newsprint for Nawa-i-Waqt and desired to meet him that he always rejected. “I met him after his retirement and he asked me that now you should be happy as the democracy of ‘your choice’ in the country has been revived,” he said. He said that he answered him how he could be happy as he had gifted the nation with another general, Yahya Khan.
He further informed that in Yahya Khan’s regime, the government had opened some fake case against the newspaper editors and he was one of them. “Once Yahya gave me the message at the behest of Maulana Kausar Niazi that if I apologised to him then he could close all these case but I always refused to apologise.”

“Our relations with General Ziaul Haq were like carrot and stick and once in a group interview he (ZIA) asked me why did I not ask a question from him,” he said. I remained silent but when he insisted, I asked him when would he surrender his powers. Majid Nizami informed the participants that he, after 9/11, in a meeting of editors with General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf had asked him, “You have surrendered before US just on a telephonic call”. After this, Tariq Aziz informed him quoting Pervez Musharraf that Majid Nizami was a very arrogant person and he had decided not to invite him in any meeting. “But I asked him that he would not attend any meeting unless Musharraf apologised him,” he added.
He recalling the days of late 90s said that he was the person who persuaded Nawaz Sharif to carry out nuclear tests. He further informed that he stood by Fatima Jinnah in Ayub era when the majority of the press was supporting the dictator.

He viewed that though there was no writ of the state in these day, and inflation, thefts throughout the country were on the rise yet they should not be disappointed with the future of Pakistan as the country would live forever and they would be in a better position in future. He advised President Asif Ali Zardari not to surrender before the US.

Speaking on the occasion, Former Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed said there was a dire need of concentrating on education system and curriculum development. There should be a uniformed education system as the feudal lords and bureaucrats are keeping people away from education intentionally.

He said that they should give full attention to Islamic teaching. “It is a good sign that aristocrats are talking about ideology of Pakistan,” he added. Defence experts have expressed that if they would follow ideology of Pakistan no one could defeat them. He said that enemy of the country is trying to changes the education system and curriculum as they are against the ideology.
“They want to see Pakistan as secular state and our neighbouring country is against our ideology. Pakistan is an ideological state. Those who argue that Pakistan is a secular state by giving the reference of Quaid-e-Azam’s speech on 11 August 1947, are making an attempt to defame great Quaid.” he added.