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JUP-N set to launch struggle for Islamic system

By Asim Hussain
April 30, 2016

LAHORE

Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP-Noorani) is all set to announce its future line of action for the struggle of enforcing Nizam-e-Mustafa in the country and protection of blasphemy laws and Islamic ideology of the country in its national convention scheduled to be held tomorrow (Sunday) at Aiwan-e-Iqbal.

Talking to media on Friday, JUP president Pir Ijaz Hashmi said his party would strictly pursue the goals for which the country was created instead of misleading the nation in the name of creating a new Pakistan. “On May 1, there will be two public meetings in Punjab capital. At one side, there will be people of Durood, while on the other, there will be people of dance and music.

One side is struggling for realising those objectives for which Allama Iqbal, Quaid-e-Azam and other leaders of Pakistan Movement created this country. While the other side is trying to secularise the country against those very objectives for which country was created. The people will be the best judge," he said.

JUP secretary general Shah Awais Noorani said there must be transparent and across the board inquiry into corruption and money laundering as indicated by the Panama Papers Leaks. To a question, he said there should be no mid-term elections and the government must be allowed to complete its term, of which less than two years were left.

He said reducing present parliament’s term would be against democratic values, adding that impatient politicians resort to this demand only to satisfy their desire to reach parliament. He recalled that parliament was suggested many times to reduce its term from five to four years to address such problems which arose after governments had reached the middle of their term, but it had never considered it.

Asked why the religious parties were protesting against the government when some of them like Jamaat-i-Islami and JUI-F were allies of federal and KP governments, Awais Noorani said Jamaat-i-Islami had lost its original stature because of doing politics of compromise.

To another question about any possible joint struggle with the opposition parties against government regarding Panama Leaks issue, Awais Noorani said JUP would follow any decision jointly taken by the opposition parties. He lamented that opposition parties were still not acting as opposition parties and engaged in pursuing their personal political ambitions on priority basis rather than struggling for greater national causes like protecting Islamic ideology, democratic values and norms, and interests of the masses.