ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Murtaza Solangi, said on Tuesday that the entire Pakistani nation stood united on the issue of Palestine.
Taking part in the debate on the Palestine issue in the Senate, the minister said that there is no division on the Palestine issue. From Senator Mushtaq Ahmed to Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, we all are united.
He said that the Senate, with its honourable members including Senator Raza Rabbani who had drafted the landmark 18th Constitutional Amendment, had raised its voice in favour of Palestine and its people.
He added that since the establishment of Pakistan, its every head of state and government – from Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar had expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The minister recalled that at the age of 22, he was for the first time arrested for standing up and collecting donations for Palestinian people after the massacre of Palestinian women and children in Lebanon by Israel.
Palestinians Could Never be Suppressed
He said that the Pakistani nation had unshakable faith that the voice and struggle of the Palestinian people could never be suppressed. He said that PM Kakar had telephoned Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas to express solidarity with on the current situation.
Solangi said that the speech of Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Munir Akram, had perturbed the Zionists. Pakistan has always raised its voice for the right to self-determination of the people of Palestine and would continue to do so.
