PNN: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Ameer Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has expressed deep regret over the escalating insecurity, lawlessness and unemployment gripping the southern and tribal districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, declaring that the region remains trapped in a severe cycle of violence and instability.
Addressing a leadership workshop in Karak, attended by senior JI provincial leaders including Professor Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Muhammad Zahoor Khattak, Maulana Muhammad Tasleem Iqbal, Maulana Saleemullah Arshad and district chief Siddiqullah Shaheen, Hafiz Naeem said the southern districts and former tribal areas are reeling under intense unrest. He pointed to deteriorating ties with Afghanistan as a major aggravating factor and directly questioned the government: “Why have conditions on the Pak-Afghan border become so disastrous?”
He accused Pakistan of turning its own people against the state by blindly aligning with the United States, alleging that agencies including the CIA, RAW, Blackwater, MI6 and others are actively involved in fomenting chaos. He criticised efforts to equate legitimate jihad with terrorism and called for an urgent review of the country’s policy of “sitting in America’s lap.”
Noting that the same Pashtun tribes inhabit both sides of the border, Hafiz Naeem urged authorities to engage tribal elders in genuine dialogue to restore peace rather than relying on threats and military operations. He condemned the recurring pattern in which a handful of generals formulate policies, drag the entire army into them, only for successors to declare the previous approach wrong and impose their own, a cycle, he said must end immediately.
In a major announcement, the JI chief declared that a decisive, all-out, nationwide public movement against Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and their exploitative agreements would restart immediately after Ramazan. “This time the nation will not tolerate any more nation-destroying deals,” he warned.
He also took aim at PTI and other opposition parties, accusing them of double standards on the proposed Gaza Peace Board and urging them to join JI in openly opposing the government’s slavish policies.
Hafiz Naeem described America as a friend only to Israel, neither a reliable ally nor a fair adversary.