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Political leaders including Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aain Pakistan Chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai, BNP-M Sardar Akhtar Mengal, NP General Secretary Kabir Muhammad, ANP Balochistan President Asghar Khan Achakzai, PTI Balochistan President Dawood Shah Kakar and MWM Allama Vilayat Hussain held a press conference on Thursday in Jafar Quaetta Hussain. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
A national conference organized by the opposition Tehreek Tahaffuz Ain Pakistan (TTAP) and the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party called on Pakistan to adopt a clear, independent and principled stance on Gaza and other global conflicts, urging the government to reorient its foreign policy away from Western influence.
The conference, held at the Lahore High Court, was attended by Senate Opposition Leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, former Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party leader Ammar Ali Jan along with political activists and civil society representatives.
A joint communique issued after the conference demanded Pakistan’s immediate withdrawal from the US-backed “Peace Council” on Gaza, declaring it incompatible with the country’s moral and political stance on Palestine.
The communication called on the government to actively support the Palestinian people and involve parliament, political parties and mass movements in a national debate on Palestine, especially in the context of what it termed US imperialism and the policies of US President Donald Trump.
The declaration also called on Pakistan to support the formation of a Global South Bloc – consisting of countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America – to lead the international struggle for freedom and justice for Palestine.
The conference called for a foreign policy based on mutual respect and cooperation and rejected alignment with any single global power. It condemned threats issued by Trump against Iran and rejected all forms of imperialist interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
The conference expressed solidarity with Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and other countries in Latin America and Africa. It rejected the “imposition of war and division in the region” and warned that such policies – linked to a US strategy to encircle China – would destabilize the region and undermine peace.
Concluding its demands, the conference called for a genuine non-aligned foreign policy for Pakistan, rooted in regional peace, rejecting the role of a Western proxy and reflecting the aspirations of oppressed peoples worldwide.
Earlier, while addressing the gathering, Senator Mushtaq launched a scathing criticism of global powers, Pakistan’s political elite and what he called the “hypocrisy in the name of peace”.
