Moosavi urges for OIC anti-US resolution on Iraq

By: Salman Alvi

RAWALPINDI, October 14: Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, chief of the Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan has proposed that the OIC Summit should call upon Pakistan to play the role of its leadership being the atomic power and immediate attention should be given in resolving internal issues faced by the Muslim States.

He was talking to a representative delegation of TNFJ Rawalpindi Region office-bearers here on Tuesday. He said the internal strife within Muslim States is on its height, terrorism is the order of the day, freedom of the people is encroached upon and all these problems need immediate attention for resolution on priority basis, like the Prime Minister of Pakistan has issued instruction to implement the Anti-Terrorism Ordinance in letter and spirit. But, he said, implementation must be seen and only lip-service should not be paid towards this direction.

Agha Moosavi said need to set up such a body that would give priority to solution of problems faced only by Ummat-e-Wahida and help these problems resolved was felt in 1969 when Israel desecrated and put Masjid-e-Aqsa on fire. Thus emergence of the OIC while Rabita Islami already existed since 1962 and the United Nations Organization was also in its place already. He said the first OIC Summit was held in Rabat in which it was decided to hold the summit after every three years while the foreign ministers were to meet every year. The second OIC Summit held in Pakistan and the ninth in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the current 10th summit is being held in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

The TNFJ chief said nothing could materialize in previous summits. He said the extraordinary session of the OIC was held in Doha about seven months ago i.e. on March 5, 2003 that reviewed the possible American attack on Iraq and discussed issues confronting the Islamic World in the backdrop of independence movement of Palestinians.

The declaration issued after the summit had welcomed the Iraqi assurance to implement the Resolution No. 1441 of the Security Council and paid tributes to Iraqi announcement to cooperate with the United Nations inspectors in checking the atomic weapons. The declaration had rejected the possibility of any attack against Iraq that would pose threat to integrity and autonomy of the Islamic States. But no emergent OIC session could be held after American attack on Iraq while the present session is also a routine activity.

He said the OIC did nothing for solution of problems faced by the Muslim Ummah despite passage of 33 years and had it worked towards that direction then chief of the international colonial powers i.e. America and her Zionist and Hindu agents would not have exerted that much pressure on the Islamic World, would not have termed them terrorists and would not have destructed Iraq after Afghanistan. He said Muslim rulers are the hurdle in way of achieving the OIC objectives as they are being controlled by international colonial powers. He said they would have to get themselves rid of international colonial powers first if they desire solution to their problems.

Agha Moosavi reminded that Pakistan had refused to attend the first OIC Summit when India was invited as a guest but today Philippines and Russia have been invited as observers while China, France and other States are not invited. He said first it should be seen whether others could be invited to the summit and if so, then all members should be taken into confidence on this issue because if other States desired to attend the summit then what would be the fate of real point of view?

He said before participation in the OIC Summit, Philippines, Russia and India would have to solve problems confronted to Muslims there; as Muslim independence movements are working in Philippines. If these States agree to do that then it would be a good omen and their participation otherwise would commensurate to invite more problems and more trouble, he added. He said the current OIC Summit is being held in a situation when our enemy was utilizing all her energies in getting the Islamic World termed as terrorists while the Islamic World could not succeed in stopping the international terrorists from attacking Iraq despite host of protests against them. He said now only time is being sought from America to leave Iraq that is commensurate in providing legal cause to her for attacking Iraq.

The Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi said the OIC should adopt a consensus resolution in its session that America should be tried for aggression against Iraq, termed a culprit and given exemplary punishment. He said the occupation forces are obligatory to restore peace but America proved a total failure in Iraq on this count. He said if the OIC is really sincere in resolving the issues confronted to the Islamic World then all problems including that of Kashmir and Palestine should be considered as problems faced by the Islamic World.

But, he said the OIC did not consider Kashmir a priority issue since its inception so much so that Kashmir issue has not been included in the list of priority issues of the current OIC session. Therefore, the OIC is advised to adopt a joint strategy regarding monetary, media and defense issues if it is really sincere in resolving the same. The OIC has no justification to exist if it could not do that, he added. He said the OIC Summit should settle that if the struggle launched in East Timor was not terrorism then the struggle for independence in Kashmir and Palestine could also not termed terrorism.

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