Independent state: Pakistan fully supports Palestinians' demand: Naek

Chairman Senate Farooq H. Naek on Sunday said that Pakistan fully supported Palestinians' demand for an independent state with Al-Quds as its capital. He said this while addressing the 5th International Conference on Palestinian Intifada in Tehran (Iran), said a message received here.
He said Palestinian Authority's progress in establishing state institutions was an auspicious augury for peace.
Highlighting Pakistan's stance on the issue, the Senate Chairman said that it has a historical perspective deeply rooted in the proactive role played by former Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in highlighting the Palestinian issue in its true sense at the international fora. He said successive governments in Pakistan continued an all out support to the Palestinian cause.
Naek added that President Asif Ali Zardari was diligently pursuing the cause with the same zeal and enthusiasm, making support to Palestinian brethren a corner stone of Pakistan's foreign policy.
He said that President Zardari's vision was also well reflected by Pakistan's Foreign Minister at the UN General Assembly recently, reiterating Pakistan's principled stance of upholding the realisation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right for a separate homeland, and support to President Mahmoud Abas's plea seeking UN membership for Palestine.
He said, "We can never accept the usurpation of additional Palestinian land. Israel has no right to erect its separation wall beyond its 1967 boundaries.
The Senate Chairman said, "I urge the leaders of entire Muslim Ummah as well the people to join hands and build synergies in support for our Palestinian brethren and for their early deliverance from fear, atrocity and persecution." The International Conference on Palestinian Intifada was attended by over 50 parliamentary delegations and political figures, elites and intellectuals and many state officials from Muslim and non-Muslim countries.