Pakistanis will reject govt which overlooks Kashmir: Saeed

ISLAMABAD: Pakistanis will reject any government that overlooks the Kashmir dispute and seeks "to please the US and India", the former chief of the Lashker-e-Toiba said on Monday.
     
Reacting to PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's comments that relations between India and Pakistan should not be held hostage by the Kashmir dispute, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed claimed the statement was "tantamount to rubbing salt in the wounds of the Kashmiri people".
      
Saeed, who now heads the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawah which has been listed by the US as a terrorist group, said "history is witness that those rulers who attempted to neglect the sacrifices of oppressed Kashmiris have not lasted long in power".
    
"The Pakistani nation will never allow anyone to trade the blood of Kashmiris," he said, urging political parties to "rectify" their stance and "strive to please Allah instead of seeking to please the US and India".
      
Saeed said Zardari, whose Pakistan People's Party is set to form government, should have asked the UN to investigate alleged atrocities on Kashmiris instead of talking about promoting trade with India.
     
The people have voted against the US and its allies in the February 18 polls and "if the new government deviates from Pakistan's principled stance on the Kashmir issue, people will totally  reject them too", he claimed.
     
The "movement is continuing and will continue in the future," Saeed said. "Any conspiracies against it will never succeed."