Defense of Pakistan Council (DPC) chief Maulana Samiul Haq said at a press conference this week that the Pakistan Army would not take any action against the Haqqani network.
According to Dawn News, Haq on Wednesday slammed US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Pakistan and said that those he was affiliated with “were still fighting the Americans in Afghanistan”.
In his speech earlier this week, Trump accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to terrorist organizations .
Haq, who is the chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI-S), also issued a call for ‘jihad’ to every section of society.
Dawn news stated that when asked about terrorist attacks being carried out in Pakistan by local actors affiliated with religious groups, Haq claimed that no Pakistani was involved in killing innocent people.
“The West has been defaming jihad, [equating it] with terrorism, but we need to raise a call to jihad and ask each prayer leader in every mosque to preach the importance of jihad, so that our youth is prepared all the time,” he said.
Dawn News quoted him as saying: “We are fighting the Americans in Afghanistan and those who cannot fight are waging jihad with their words and pens; the whole nation needs to rise up to defeat the West.”
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