Altaf Hameed Rao
MIRPUR (AJK): Protests erupted across Azad Jammu & Kashmir on Friday against the recent forced and unwarranted move of US President Donald Trump declaring the occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The liberated part of the Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir was banged with protest rallies and demonstrations in all major cities and towns after the Jumma (Friday) prayers against the United States of America for her increased but abortive nefarious hegemonic designs of expansionism to “rule” the world through such latest, what the protest rallies declared, forced, uncalled for and unwarranted move in the occupied Palestine.
President Trump had the other day declared to end the US neutrality on Jerusalem and promised to relocate the US embassy there from Tel Aviv. The move ignited fury among the Islamic world including Pakistan where the government announced the country-wide protest at the decision which is believed to have shatters hopes for peace in the war-torn occupied region.
Jerusalem is regarded as a capital by both Israel and Palestine, making it the highly combustible center of the decades-long Israeli-Arab conflict.
Protesters take to the streets in AJK’s capital town of where participants of a mammoth protest rally denounced Mr Trump’s actions. Similar displays were seen in other AJK cities including the divisional headquarters of Mirpur and Rawalakot.
In Mirpur, various processions were taken out by the people belonging to all walks of life, from various city mosques after Friday prayer on the call of Diffa e Pakistan Council.
Big procession was brought out from the Muslim Mosque C-2 sector in the city under the leadership of Mufti-e-Azam AJK Mufti Muhammad Rowais Khan Ayubi. The protesters marched through various city streets chanting slogans against the United States and its-backed occupational Israeli forces for the above forced decision of declaring occupied Jerusalem as the Israeli capital through announcing to set up the US Embassy.
All the processions turned into mammoth protest rally at Shaheed chowk where speakers belonging to various political, religious and public representative organizations strongly condemned the US for declaring to open its embassy in occupied Jerusalem.
Speakers including Mufti e Azam (Grand Mufti of AJK) Mufti Muhammad Rowais Khan Ayubi, Moulana Sajaad Ahmed of Jamaat ud Daawa, Dr. Muhammad Naeem Mughal, Dr. Riaz Ahmed and Bashir Shagoo of AJK Jamaat e Islami, Abdul Qadir Nadeem, Shakoor Mughal of Muslim Conference, Raja Khalid Mahmood Khan President his own faction of Markazi Anjuman-e-Tajraan and others called upon the Muslim ummah to rally-round a flag to frustrate the United States hegemonic designs which Washington was acting upon to hurt Islamic world through such irrelevant and forced move to back strengthening the perpetuation of unlawful Israeli occupation of Palestine.
At the same time, President Jammu & Kashmir Liberation League and retired Chief Justice of AJK High Court Justice (Retd) Abdul Majeed Mallick also strongly condemned US President action of declaring Bait ul Maqdas – the capital of Israel through announcing to establish the US Embassy there. Addressing his party workers emergency meeting here on Friday, Justice Mallick observed that US President’s said act was nothing but to strengthen the unlawful Israeli occupation of Palestine besides to hurt the religious feelings of the Islamic world. “Muslim ummah will not ever accept the Israeli occupation over Palestine besides such unwarranted acts taken at the might of the American-backed forced occupation of Jerusalem by Israeli forces”, he added.
Through various unanimously resolutions, authored by the Grand Mufti of AJK Mufti Mohammad Rowais Khan Ayubi, the rally warned that US President Trump has brought entire world at the verge of third world war through declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel. The rally called upon the United Nations to immediately summon the emergency session of the Security Council to condemn said madness of Trump besides to keep Washington abstained from implementation of the said horrifying act.
Through another resolution, the rally called upon all the Islamic countries to immediately disband the diplomatic relations with the United States of America in protest against the Trump’s said disastrous act. It continued demanding government of Pakistan to immediately change its diplomatic policy about Afghanistan by disbanding the existing supply line of America for Afghanistan via Pakistan.
Another unanimously-passed resolution called upon all the Islamic countries to immediately move for the recruitment of volunteers for the freedom of ‘AlQuds’ – Qibla a Awwal.
Another unanimously-passed resolution Arab League to immediately move for getting the deposits of all member countries withdrawn from the American banks the world over. The rally urged upon Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to formally announced ‘Jehaad’ (Holy War) against Israel through the allied forces as the last resort for the sovereignty and maintaining the honor of ‘Qibla e Awwal’ – instead of using the allied Islamic forces for the safety and survival of her Kingdom.
The rally also urged for the socio-economic and trade boycott of the United States by all Muslim countries.
The rally particularly suggested to American population to take to the mass protest instead of supporting said criminal act of Trump.
“US people should keep Washington refrain from the anti-Muslim policy. Otherwise non of the American city will be saved from the attack of the Muslim mujahedeen”, another resolution said.
The resolution called upon the State Bank of Pakistan to move for the affiliation of the rupee with British Pound Sterling or Dinaar instead of the US Dollar with prime focus to discourage the American currency.