Unprecedented protests if blasphemy laws changed: JI

Karachi

No one will be allowed to convert the Islamic Republic of Pakistan into a so-called secular state where, at present, not only ideologies were clashing but attempts were being made to derail the entire nation, said the secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami Liaquat Baloch.

Addressing a convention in the Liaquatabad area, he said education was referred to research and technology but the ruling regime was imposing mischievous themes under on the pretext of progress. He invited the masses to unite over the issue of blasphemy laws. He said history was witness that whenever anyone committed blasphemy, he or she always faced the consequences.

Baloch said Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had fought a judicial battle to secure the life of Ilm Din who was accused of killing a blasphemer, while people like Allama Iqbal and Prof MD Taseer (the father of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer) had also supported him.

He said the forefathers of our nation had struggled against the hanging of a murderer who had killed a blasphemer, while the present regime had been dancing on the tune of foreign masters and they had hanged Mumtaz Qadri.

The JI leader was of the view that the rulers had dug their own grave and spoiled the future of the nation, both in this world and heareafter.

He made it clear that there will be unprecedented resistance against any attempt to repeal the blasphemy laws, since the matter of honour of the most sacred person in Islam was a matter of life and death for the entire Muslim Ummah.

He vowed to safeguard the ideological sovereignty of the state which was the fabric of the Pakistani society and ridding the country of corruption and corrupt elements.

JI’s Karachi chief Engineer Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman in his address termed the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri as a judicial murder.

He said rulers had been pursuing a fascist line against Islam and Islamic elements on orders of their ‘foreign bosses’.

He said the country was formed on the basis of Islam and will remain so. According to the JI Karachi chief, founder of the country Muhammad Ali Jinnah on several occasions had categorically stated that the law, the Constitution and judiciary of the country would be based on pure Islamic principles.