Journal : we are pleased to meet today Dr. Nahro Mohammad Alkasnazan
Al-Husaini, the Secretary-General of the CINU, being a prominent symbol of the country's political figures, and the son and general representative of the great religious Sufi leader: Sheikh Mohammad Alkasnazan, the chief of Al-Aliya Alqaderiya Alkasnazania way in the world, to listen to his reading of the Iraqi scene in the current stage, welcome to you…

Dr. Nahro: in the name of Allah, the Magnificent, the Merciful, in the beginning I cannot but to thank the respected Al-Amani newspaper for this meeting which attends to Iraqi affair, hoping for those in charge of this newspaper all luck and continued success.  

Q1: Your goal has been and still in reality to build the Iraqi man and liberate him from the chains of hopelessness and despair that accompanied him all through decades ago, so, what is the general framework that can be substantiated thru the coming stage?

A1:  it is regrettable that frustration status is still haunting the Iraqi citizen despite the changes that took place on Iraqi political arena over the past years, and undoubtedly the reasons for that are obvious to all, as security situation is still unstable and political process still stalled, economy is weak as yet, but even standing at a perilous verge… we are sparing no effort to salvage the Iraqi citizen from this troubled reality in the said areas, and we warned time and again that to get out of this impasse it is  required to re-consider the essence of political process altogether in Iraq, and we take the opportunity here to advice of the necessity to adopt new economic policies, established on activating the alternatives to oil wealth, such as agriculture, tourism and caring for the private sector, in addition to enhancing the Iraqi citizen's standard of living, and also, attending to health and scientific side of the individual, placing the key services as electricity, water, and fuel at the forefront of primacies, this should mitigate part of the crisis being faced by the Iraqi citizen, remove worry off his chest, and he is eligible for that…   

Q2: Kurdish parties fought for the federation, namely, returning to the center, and the formation of a federal-Iraqi government, while the south was not divided or separated from Iraq… how do you see the South federation when the majority see it a division, and is rejected by some spectra of Iraqi people?

A2: we think that Iraqi Kurdistan has its own particularity, and therefore there is nothing wrong with its federation as long as it is maintained and continually connected with one Iraq in which its children coexist in friendly, brotherly and peaceful manner. But as to calls for other kinds of federations promote to divide the country, land or people, they are definitely denied by us, and likewise by all good people in our dear country.

Q3: you did run into the provincial councils' elections, did what you achieved rise to the level of ambition?

A3: we think, at first, that participation in any political process in which the Iraqi people shall have the final word therein, is a national duty, no one should lag behind it, whatever the circumstances and conditions were. Because, participation in this process is sort of a living incarnation directed to activate the principles of democracy, and build the state of law and institutions… hence we endeavored to have an active presence in all stages that accompanied the political process, in spite of our rejection of the intellectual system on which the political process was established so far, because it rested on the principle of allocation which we repudiate altogether.

On the provincial councils' elections, we were not surprised by the results appeared being not different from its predecessor re the dominance of some blocs thereupon and their blatant interference: the explicit and implicit in patching up its results in favor of certain entities at the expense of integrity and transparency in the whole process; otherwise, what the deprivation of large segments of people from voting, change of polling centers and so forth of many violations, should be termed? Thus, it is normal to have results below the minimum of what we deserve.  

Q4: Iraq has passed thru many crises that claimed the lives of many Iraqi people, what is your position on those events, and what is the main reason behind them?

A4: our position is so clear from those events, and we pronounced it in all statements we issued and which diagnosed the defect in being driven from external parties, and in return we raised the slogan: (reunion) and (national bond) to compact the row between the national political elites that have common fate and one objective, the goal is the unity of Iraq, its security and stability, welfare and people, so we called and are still calling to these invariants.

Q5: CINU has been founded since 1991, and you are its Secretary-General in Iraq, how you see your coalition on the ground according to the situations and conflicts that have passed the country, and what is your role in checking the hot events?  

A5: we, as we have been always, are keen to have a concrete presence in every inch of the Iraqi land, this very presence is leaned on our national weight and people's acceptance of our ideas especially that the core of our coalition ideology is rested on gathering the national composition in one crucible and this pivot is what spared us making up for the deficiency experienced by the majority of other parties for being divided between what is ethnic, religious or ideological.

Q6: you take up Sulaymaniyah as the seat of your coalition, to whom you attribute the popular support stretching from north to south passing thru the capital, Baghdad?

A6: our headquarters in Sulaymaniyah is one of our principal and important offices, we have also key offices in all governorates of our dear country, in addition to branch offices in all districts and areas of the country, and we do not differentiate between all of them because our allegiance is to Iraq and its people on every inch of its dear land. We are present wherever the national duty requires us to be.

As for the public support we have, which extends over the area of our dear Iraq, we think it goes back to what the Iraqi citizen has already felt of our originality emanating from the land of Mesopotamia, and of our credibility in defending a free democratic and unified Iraq.

Q7: what about your position from the intervention of neighboring countries in Iraqi affair?

A7: interference in the internal affairs of Iraq is totally denied in different shapes and forms, whether was it regional or international; however, all external papers have burned which were betting on a civil war, or sought painstakingly to divide the country ethnically… since Iraqi people have proved refractory against all terrorist and expansionist schemes that did not leave any of the bloody implements but  used them to instigate revenge between Iraqi society's segments and its multiple spectra, so they failed, as Iraqi street used to and still turn out after every bloody incident to learn about who is who stands behind it, such a people worthy to be a living example emulated in its consciousness and unity by all peoples of the world.  

Q8: what about the honoring extended by the Union of Arab Historians – League of Arab States (Arab Historian Medal) and (Union of Arab Historians Certificate)?

A8: we would seize this opportunity to renew our thanks to the Union of Arab Historians for this honoring in which we pride, and which reinforce our determination to much more of giving for the  service of  our country, nation and the entire people.

Q9: what do you aspire to achieve for the Iraqi people?

A9: Iraq is our identity, the ground from which our visions and thoughts are launched, and the Iraqi citizen is our goal, and what we aspire to attain at the political level is to correct the gross fault represented in the phenomenon of sectarian allocation that have emerged with the establishment of the governing council which many perceived as the beginning of the attempt to divide Iraq, and that by replacing it with the legislation of political parties, which contains articles requiring the openness to all Iraqi people constituents by the parties willing to participate  in the political process, and at the level of economy we aspire to discharge the country from the bottle of total reliance on oil proceeds by opening up to other countries' resources of agriculture and tourism, and activating investments in all fields, giving priority to the private sector, and seeking to separate economy from politics; and at the level of services, we strive to furnish infrastructure including water, electricity, health and education, sports and so on, in the top of what advanced nations has attained in codification; on the other hand, the segments covered by social and health security are significant in our program as they suffered for the sake of this country further to their rights to decent living from which they have been deprived for many years…  

We aspire after flourishing, well-being, prosperity and progress for this nation to take its role in the building of human civilization.

In conclusion, we iterate our thanks to Al-Amani newspaper for having made it possible for us to voice some of our goals and visions in the service of  our dear country.