JUI-S chief wants trial of PM under Article 6

NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) head Maulana Samiul Haq on Thursday demanded trial of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under Article 6 of the Constitution for his remarks about liberal Pakistan.
“Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam. The prime minister has committed treason by passing remarks against the ideology of the country,” he stressed.
He was speaking at the condolence reference for late religious scholar Maulana Dr Sher Ali Shah at the Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak.
Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq, chief of Jamatud Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed, chief of Ansar-ul-Umma organization Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, tribal elders and religious scholars from across the country and students of seminaries attended the event. Maulana Samiul Haq said the prime minister’s remarks had hurt the feelings of the people as he had linked the future of the country with liberalism.
He urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo moto notice of the prime minister’s statement and try him for treason under Article 6 of the Constitution.
“Nawaz Sharif’s statement is tantamount to committing treason. The word Islamic and not liberal Pakistan has been used in the Constitution,” the JI chief Sirajul Haq argued. He said the religious parties were united in the struggle for enforcement of Shariah in the country. He paid rich tributes to Dr Sher Ali Shah for his services for peace and Islam.
“Dr Sher Ali Shah was not a common man but the name of a mission, ideology, belief and struggle,” he added.
Hafiz Saeed said that the Darul Uloom Haqqania was the name of a mission and ideology. He said Haqqania has produced thousands of religious scholars and mujahids who were spreading the message of Islam and promoting cause of jehad.
A group of tribal elders also attended the condolence reference for the Maulana Sher Ali Shah who died recently and whose funeral was attended by a record number of mourners.