Prime minist­er says Kashmi­r facing simila­r traged­y in scope and scaleISTANBUL: A sovereign homeland for the Palestinian people with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital remains the only roadmap for the Muslim Ummah and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Wednesday. The prime minister recalled that both Houses of Pakistan’s Parliament had unanimously echoed these sentiments and said “we all stand firmly behind the Palestinian people and their just struggle”. Together with the OIC and the Muslim world, Pakistan had always demonstrated its solidarity with the Palestinian people and their legitimate aspirations for a promised homeland, he said. Here too, UNSC resolutions continued to be defied and the just struggle for freedom conveniently branded as terrorism, he added. The prime minister said another reason for the situation the Muslim world found itself in was that “we are not writing enough, producing enough.

Source: The Express Tribune December 13, 2017 17:37 UTC