Daily Times

PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday demanded that Afghanistan apologise over the attack on Pakistani soil. Addressing a JI Youth Wing meeting in Lahore on Sunday, he said the attack was an Indian conspiracy. Later while addressing a ceremony at Tehmash Khan Stadium in Peshawar, he said that there was no need for Western values in Pakistan. “Western ideals and culture are so materialistic that a man there will not even spend money to buy his partner an ice cream. We don’t want the promotion of a culture in Pakistan where a couple won’t even spend Rs 5 on each other for an ice cream,” he said. The JI chief also criticised Western culture for its individual freedom and liberty. Comparing societies, Haq said people in Western countries left their parents at old-age homes and met them only once a year, but in Pakistan they lived as joint families. Talking about Pakistan’s banking system, the JI leader said interest should be abolished.