Ulema, seminaries being maligned under a conspiracy: Siraj

TIMERGARA: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq said on Tuesday Sirajul Haq said a propaganda had been unleashed against the ulema and religious seminaries under a conspiracy.

“More than 3.5 million students are getting religious education in seminaries all over Pakistan but the government is yet to allocate a single penny for the welfare of students and madaris in its budgets. Are these students not the citizens of Pakistan and were they not paying taxes,” Sirajul Haq told ‘Dastarbandi’ function at Jamia Tafheemul Quran at Lal Qila in Maidan.

Former MNAs Dr Attaurrahman, Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob Khan and former MPAs Aizazul Mulk Afkari, Saeed Gul and others also spoke on the occasion.

He said the establishing boards for madaris on the basis of sects by the government was tantamount to fanning sectarianism in the country. Siraj alleged that the masses were being hoodwinked sometimes in the name of ‘ Rooti Kapra Makan’ and sometimes in the name of change.

Siraj urged the ulema to get united and start the struggle for implementation of Shariah laws in the country, which was created on the basis of Islamic ideology.

“We are fighting a war against capitalism and its followers who have occupied the parliament and were not serious to implement Shariah laws in the country,” Siraj added. The JI chief said Pakistan was the only county of the world which was created in the name of Islam and the emergence of Pakistan was not just the emergence of a new state rather it was created on the basis of an Islamic ideology. He said ulema had taken an active part in the freedom movement.