New Delhi: JKLF (Jammu Kashmir Liberation front) has criticised Pakistani
establishment, saying its citizens have been sacrificed by those agencies, which have
assumed the role of determining what is in the "national interest" and who is "loyal"
to the regime in Islamabad.
In an article in US-based Pakistani weekly "South Asian Tribune", London-based JKLF
leader Shabir Choudhry said, "Once these people have decided that something is in the
national interest of Pakistan, they will pursue that agenda without having any system
of checks and balances and appraisal.
"If anyone dares to criticise what they do in the name of national interest of
Pakistan, he or she is declared as anti-Pakistani, especially if the person concerned
is a Kashmiri," Chaudhry said in a veiled reference to slain Hurriyat leader Abdul
Gani Lone, who was labelled as anti-Pakistani prior to his gunning down by
militants.
Highlighting blunders of some important people in the name of national interest of
Pakistan, the JKLF leader said, "Gen Yahya Khan...ordered his Army to attack
Pakistani people in East Pakistan, which resulted in fall of Dhaka and death of
millions of innocent people and imprisonment of 93,000 armed personnel (before Indian
troops), biggest surrender of the history."
Choudhry said that some of the officials thought it was in the national interest of
Pakistan to help, support and encourage jihadi organisations in Pakistan, which
ultimately carried out jihad in Kashmir, Afghanistan and elsewhere and "now it is in
the national interest to crush these jihadi organisations."
PTI
