JI blasts JUI
(F) over balking at resignations
Bureau Report
LAHORE—The MMA president and Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad
has said that at present the strongest voice opposing the US aggression
against Islam is that of MMA, and the alliance will continue discharging
this duty forever by being united.
He was talking to newsmen after the meeting of JI central working
council at Mansoorah on Wednesday. He said there are no big differences
among MMA on resigning from assemblies, and whatever petty differences
are there will be sorted out in the next supreme council meeting. He
said we will keep MMA united and invite PML-N and Tehrik Insaf to join
the movement against the dictatorship of Gen Pervez Musharraf.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad said the JI members will continue to boycott assembly
proceedings and select committees, adding that he himself has not been
drawing salary or taking any privilege from the assembly. He said no MMA
party has any objection to JI members’ boycott of assembly and
committees, and this boycott is voluntary since we have not pressurized
them in this regard.
To a question, Qazi said if PPP violated Charter of Democracy by
accepting Gen Musharraf dictatorship then its politics will come to an
end. He said resignation issue will be solved by MMA supreme council in
the next meeting.
Meanwhile, central working council of the party in its resolutions
harshly condemned and rejected Gen Musharraf deviation from Pakistan’s
principled stance on Kashmir by presenting strange new formulas and the
latest statement by foreign office, terming it defeat attitude. It said
surrendering the 60 year stance by an individual deprived of public
mandate just to please Washington and support the plan of Greater India
is a serious injustice to both Kashmiris and Pakistanis.
The meeting announced categorically that Kashmir is the lifeline of
Pakistan and assured Kashmiri freedom fighters and people full support
in their freedom struggle against the Indian occupation, which was
rejected by the UN and guaranteeing them right to self determination. It
assured Kashmiris that their sacrifices will never go waste and will
earn them freedom very soon.
In another resolution, the meeting expressed serious concerns over the
Zionist conspiracies against Middle East by throwing the whole region
into flames. It took serious notice of the security and political
situation in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran and Gulf states
created by western powers.
Naib Amir, Jamaat-i-Islami, Hafiz Muhammad Idrees was Wednesday released
by law enforcement agencies here Thursday.
He was detained along with other leaders, on November 30 when he was
leading Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA)’s “Road Carvan” in Gujrat. Later
he was shifted to Bahawalpur Jail. Earlier, the Punjab government
claimed that it had not apprehended any MMA’s leader or activists in a
bid to avert any reprisal from the religio-political alliance. |
