At a news conference, DPC leaders said they would stage a sit-in in front of the Parliament on Feb 20 in condemnation of restoration of NATO supply. The restoration of NATO supplies would be tantamount to mocking national honour and sovereignty. They also said All Party Conference (APC) would be held on Feb 23 on Balochistan issue. They were speaking to the media after DPC session at a Karachi hotel on Saturday. Those who attended the news briefing included Jamiat Ulema Islam (S) Chief Maulana Sami Ul Haque, Jamaat-e Islami (JI) Pakistan Chief Syed Munawwar Hassan, Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) Chief Sahibzada Abu Al Khair Muhammad Zubair, Jamaat Ud Dawa Chief hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Ahl-e Sunnat Wal Jamaat Chief Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhyanvi. While addressing, Maulana Sami Ul Haque said that the DPC leaders had discussed country’s situation in detail and decided to keep the decision of staging a sit-in at the Parliament on Feb 20. The political and religious parties in DPC would join the sit-in. He said that DPC leaders’ conference would be held in Islamabad on Feb 19. DPC was extremely concerned on Balochistan issue and taking up Balochistan issue in the Congress of the United States was a direct interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs as she had done in Arab countries. The statement issued by the US Defence Committee was provoking and serious. The DPC stands beside the people of Balochistan and would play their role to get the situation resolved. In this regard, APC on Balochistan issue would be held in Quetta on Feb 23 and Baloch nationalist leaders would be taken on board. Speaking on the occasion, JI Chief Syed Munawwar Hassan said that people have welcomed the DPC across the country, which manifested their trust. The biggest challenge in the country was US interference. He said that the war on terror was not Pakistan’s war and due to that war, issue of missing persons had terrorized the nation and led to military operation in the country. The DPC’s agenda was clear that NATO supply should remain discontinued. NATO supply via Pakistan’s air routes was a matter of grave concern and the DPC protested vehemently on the statement of US ambassador. He said that the incidents of targeted killings in Karachi had wreaked havoc on citizens and since the Karachiites had welcomed the DPC, the DPC would not leave them at the mercy of the target killers. Sahibzada Abu Al Khair said that DPC would struggle for freedom from America. Hafiz Saeed said that DPC had honoured those resolutions that the Parliament had discarded. Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed refuted claims that a new political alliance on the pattern of IJI was in the making.
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