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ANP flayed for proposing renaming of country
Friday, November 20, 2009
Yousaf Ali
PESHAWAR: Calling for an immediate end to the military operation in tribal areas, an ulema convention Thursday declared that religious seminaries would foil any bid to harm the ideological identity of the country.
A joined declaration adopted by the moot, which was organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami, sought implementation of Islamic laws in line with the proposals of Council of Islamic Ideology; halt to the drone attacks and military operation in tribal areas and an end to government interference in the affairs of religious seminaries.
The participants of the convention criticised the Awami National Party (ANP) proposal to rename the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as People’s Republic of Pakistan and flayed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for backing the suggestion, saying it would always remain a wish of the two “secular parties”.
Attended by a large number of religious scholars, the convention was addressed by Jamaat-e-Islam Chief Syed Munawar Hassan, former president of the party Qazi Hussain Ahmad, head of Jamiat Ittehadul Ulema Allama Ghulam Rasool Rashidi, noted religious scholar from Jamia Haqqania Akora Khattak, Maulana Sher Ali Shah, Maulana Altafur Rahman, principal, Jamia Imdadul Uloom, Qari Fayazur Rahman Alvi, patron-in-chief of Jamiat Ahle-Hadees Maulana Abdus Salam Salfi, Dr Ataur Rahman, Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali and others.
Munawar Hassan declared that the Jamaat would observe protest and black days on December 14-16 against India for its interference in Waziristan and Balochistan. He said the Indian conspiracies would be exposed during the three-day anti-India campaign.
The Jamaat chief alleged that the government was receiving dollars from the US in return for killing its own people. He said the government could not point fingers at India because of the United States pressure even when its involvement in Waziristan had been proved.
He urged the government to sever all kinds of ties with India, which according to him, was the real enemy of Pakistan.He flayed the suicide bombing at the Judicial Complex and said that Islam did not allow killing of innocent people.
Deploring the frequent bomb explosions in Peshawar, he claimed that India was behind such attacks.The Jamaat chief said for the protection of the country foreign policy should be changed and cooperation with the United States withdrawn. He said the US wanted to deprive Pakistan of its ideological identity and nuclear programme.
About the re-alliance of religious parties, Munawar Hassan said it was a good wish but could not materialise until Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl parted ways with the government. He said if a religious party was not supportive of the United States policies, it should quit the ruling alliance that “enjoyed the United States patronage”.
He said the country was in need of a big alliance to oppose what he said was the United States slavery.Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that the alliance with the United States was the root of all ills and to overcome the turbulence the alliance with the United States should be immediately ended.
He said that killing of innocent people was forbidden in Islam and spreading chaos in the country and massacring own countrymen was a major sin.Maulana Sher Ali Shah urged the participants to offer special prayers in the morning for the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan and end to its interference in Pakistan. The Jamaat chief later visited the Lady Reading Hospital to inquire after the victims of civil courts blast.
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