Rulers want to make Pakistan secular: JI

KOHAT: Accusing the rulers of trying to make Pakistan a secular state, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Sunday said that his party was striving to establish Shariah rule in the country.

Announcing that the JI was going to hold a “Train March” on May 25 against corruption, he demanded that strict action should be taken against those named in the Panama Papers leaks.Addressing a gathering in Lachi tehsil here, Sirajul Haq said that his party was striving to establish Shariah rule in Pakistan as the country came into being in the name of Islam. “We will foil any bid to turn Pakistan into a secular state,” he vowed.

JI provincial president Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, district head Sardar Khan, Dr Iqbal Fana, Maulana Abdul Saboor, Mufti Abdul Manan and scores of JI workers and supporters were present on the occasion.  The JI workers chanted slogans condemning the recent hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh leader Motiur Rahman Nizami.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI Bangladesh leader was punished for supporting Pakistan, but the government didn’t raise voice against his execution.  He said that Turkey showed courage and recalled its ambassador from Dhaka as a mark of protest. The JI leader said the rulers couldn’t defend the ideology on the basis of which the country came into existence.