Sirajul Haq demands Shariah implementation

PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Wednesday asked for implementing the Islamic system in the country for which millions of people migrated to Pakistan in 1947.

Addressing the Nifaz-e-Islam Convention by Jamiat Talaba Arabia here, he said they would protect the seminaries till the last drop of their blood. He termed the ban on the stay of the Tableeghi Jamaat in the educational institutions of Punjab as terrorism.

“Under a conspiracy, the Muslims have been divided into sects, groups and ethnicity. But we will continue our struggle to spread Islam all over the world,” Sirajul Haq said. JI provincial head Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, general secretary Abdul Wasi and others also addressed the function.

Sirajul Haq lashed out at the rulers, saying the poor people were paying taxes while the elite were looting the money like anything.  He added that the JI after coming into power would seriously take up the issue of corruption and would bring back the looted money.

The JI leader asked the government to rehabilitate those whose houses were destroyed and damaged by the earthquake in October last year. He said the government should provide facilities to the homeless including the internally displaced persons and those whose houses were destroyed in the earthquake. Speaking on the occasion, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan also stressed for implementation of the Islamic system in the country, saying it was the solution to all the problems.

Meanwhile, in a statement, JI leader Professor Mohammad Ibrahim asked the religious scholars to urge the president and the government in their Friday sermons to acquit Mumtaz Qadri after cases were withdrawn against him. He asked the religious scholars to deliver their sermons on the same issue.