Lahore Friday Prayer Leader:‎

India, its allies, increasing tensions with Pakistan

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎said, “India has multiple objectives behind its actions in ‎increasing the tensions between it and ‎Pakistan. One element inside the ruling government ‎wants to win elections using this ‎situation. There are other groups who have nothing to do ‎with elections – their purpose is to ‎destroy Pakistan and to create issues inside Pakistan‎.”‎

News ID: 443855

Date: 12 March 2019 - 07:11

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in ‎‎the‎ ‎‎‎Pakistani city of Lahore, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad ‎Naqvi referred to the current state of ‎affairs between India and Pakistan and said, “The tension that started between India and ‎Pakistan reached the jaws of war, then it subsided and now the effects are seen on both ‎sides, in India as well as Pakistan. In India, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ‎government and all opposition parties have started a severe confrontation with each other. ‎We have seen on the news that BJP members are hitting each other with shoes inside the ‎country’s parliament.”‎

The principal of Jami’at Urwat ‎‎al-Wuthqa Islamic ‎Seminary, ‎‎said, “As I mentioned in my ‎Friday sermon last week, India has multiple objectives behind its actions in increasing the ‎tensions between it and Pakistan. One element inside the ruling government wants to win ‎elections using this situation. There are other groups who have nothing to do with elections – ‎their purpose is to destroy Pakistan and to create issues inside Pakistan. In India, there is ‎one more group whose target is Muslims in India and isn’t concerned as much with ‎Pakistan.”‎

He referred to the relationship between Takfiri groups and Saudi Arabia and said, “These ‎terrorist outfits were made under foreign instruction. Muhammad bin Salman is a gangster ‎and not a ruler. Bin Salman is the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and he has said that through ‎this title, the West has told us to spread the Wahhabi ideology and this extremism is what ‎West desired from us. Today, the West wants Saudi Arabia to conclude this phase and wants ‎it to liberalize Saudi Arabia which they are now doing. In the past, the Saudi rulers were ‎diplomats and would not confess anything openly but since Bin Salman is not a politician but ‎a gangster he has openly made these confessions.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎referred to the source of pressure on Pakistan and said, “India is ‎putting less pressure on Pakistan but more pressure is coming from Pakistan’s allies. Even ‎today Adil al-Jubayr, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, has come to Pakistan. This is ‎the pressure on Pakistan. The United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are ‎all putting pressure on Pakistan. The UAE hosted the 46th Council of Foreign Ministers of the ‎Organization of Islamic Cooperation and invited Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs ‎of India, to give a give speech in which she condemned Pakistan. These are the friendly ‎nations of Pakistan?”‎

The Pakistani Shi’ah scholar said. “On the same day of the attack in Pulwama an attack ‎occurred in Zahedan. India blamed Pakistan for the attack and Iran blamed the Pakistani ‎government. The Iranians are also angry but they have not reacted like India. The situation ‎is not good between Iran and Pakistan.”‎

In regard to other issues, he said that Israel is taking full advantage of ongoing global issues ‎and has kept itself busy in operations against the Palestinian people without any disruption ‎and explained, “Last week, Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque and tried to destroy it ‎but due to the strong reaction from the Palestinian people, they stopped. Israel is waiting ‎for some big global issue to happen and under that cover, they want to completely finish off ‎al-Aqsa Mosque ‎and then rebuild their temple on that location.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎referred to the Saudi war on Yemen and stated, “In Yemen, the war is ‎severe and at the same time negotiations are also going on. The pressure on the Saudis has ‎also reduced and certain satanic states like the United Kingdom are encouraging Saudi Arabia ‎to enhance its operations in Yemen. Germany has extended an arms embargo on Saudi ‎Arabia due to its aggression in Yemen and now no weapons from Germany will be sold to ‎Saudi Arabia. The United Kingdom is pushing Germany to not impose such restrictions on ‎Saudi Arabia. Every country has something special which is useful in wars. There are certain ‎useful products for war from Germany like heavy machinery which is used for logistics in ‎war. Germany has stopped supplying these weapons as they have been used in Yemen.”‎

In regard to Venezuela, he explained, “In Venezuela, the conflict of power is going on at ‎peak. The United States and Russia are confronting each other in Venezuela the same way ‎as they did in Syria. The United States was thinking that they would be able to easily oust ‎the current President of Venezuela [Nicolás Maduro] but due to support from Russia and ‎China, they were not able to do this and Maduro’s position current is strong and he is ‎resisting. There is a threat of an attack either from air or through borders. This is a new ‎front that has opened and will have a global effect and specifically, it can affect the Middle ‎East as it is the centre of all crises.”‎

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