PAKISTAN: USA SHOULD CHANGE ITS POLICIES TOWARDS THE UMMAH

US urged to reassess policy toward Muslim world

Chairman of Pakistani Senate Foreign Relation Committee Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that United States should change its policies toward Muslim Ummah and should not link terrorism with Islam.

Talking to US military delegation here at Parliament House at a dinner hosted by him in honour of delegation, Senator Mushahid said due to wrong American policies and mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq, the gap between America and Muslim Ummah is increasing.

Mushahid said the US should reassess its policies towards the Muslim World.

He said, Islamofascism and Islamic terrorism are wrong terminologies and there is need to avoid them by US policymakers to improve its relations with Muslim world.

He said, going to Iraq, failing to resolve the Palestine issue and linking war against terrorism with Islam are major reasons for the widening gap between the US and the Muslim World.

Referring to Pakistan's efforts to promote enlightened moderation, the Chairman Senate Foreign Relation Commission of Eminent Persons of OIC, said this concept has been incorporated in the recommendation of the Commission which were approved at Makkah Summit last year.

Chairman Senate Foreign Relation Committee said Pakistan is in a rough neighborhood which has remained unstable and volatile since 1979.

He said Pakistan has been playing its due role along with the coalition forces to improve the situation in Afghanistan directly affects Pakistan.

About Pakistan-India relations, Mushahid said Pakistan seeks normalization and added that nuclearisation by Pakistan has provided self confidence to the people of Pakistan and it has created a stable balance of power in the region.

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