HYDERABAD: JI flays interference in formation of govt
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Dec 15: Jamaat-i-Islami secretary-general Syed Munawar Hassan has accused Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain of interfering in formation of government in Sindh.
Speaking at an Eid Milan party here on Sunday, the JI leader criticized “setting up of a camp in Karachi by the prime minister and Mr Hussain”.
HE SAID: “The people of Sindh have again been made hostages in the hands of the murderers and terrorists.
Referring to the many posts held by President Gen Musharraf, he said that uniform and democracy could not go together, adding that the country could not be strengthened unless the democratic institutions were made stronger.
Mr Hassan said that transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people was a mandatory legal obligation after the general elections but it had not yet been done.
Referring to the American aggression against Iraq, he said that America was acting like a “Pharaoh” and the Muslim countries were its targets.
About the suicide attacks in Israel, Hassan said that the attacks had jolted the Zionist state.
He said that 700,000 Indian troops had been unable to crush “jihad” in the occupied Kashmir.
He said that last year, when America had unleashed uncalled for aggression against Afghanistan, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazlur Rahman had been incarcerated and President Gen Pervez Musharraf had proclaimed that the two leaders had a following of only two percent of the population.
He said that the general elections had proven that the silent majority had reposed confidence in the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and had rejected the policies of Gen Musharraf.
He said that the people of Karachi and Hyderabad had also destroyed the myth of Muttahida Qaumi Movement and added that the seats, won by the MQM, had been snatched from the MMA.
He said that the MMA had failed to reach the people of interior Punjab and Sindh during the election campaign, otherwise the results of the elections there would have been no different from that of the NWFP and Balochistan.
He said that the MMA had now decided to maintain a close contact with the people and eliminate price hikes, unemployment and the tyranny of the capitalists and feudal lords.
He said that presently the opposition was more powerful than the government, adding that the MMA was extending its conditional support to the Jamali government in the interest of democracy.
Hassan said that the present government was not in a position to withstand even a single Dharna.
The MMA MNA, Asadullah Bhutto, Mumtaz Hussain Sehto, the provincial chief of Islami Jamiat-i-Tulba, Umair Idrees, Rao Masood Ali Khan and Dr Talha Salman also spoke on the occasion.
Later, talking to journalists, Mr Asadullah criticized the arrest of Mohajir Qaumi Movement leader Younus Khan from the premises of the Sindh Assembly, saying that those people who had violated the sanctity of the house, enjoyed the blessings of the prime minister.
He demanded suspension of those police officers, who had arrested the MPA and warned that the opposition would chalk out a future course of action over the issue.
He said that the MMA’s MPA Sakeena Bano was in government custody, adding that she had been brought to the House in a rangers’ vehicle.
He said that tremendous pressure had been put on her husband, who was a divisional engineer in the PTCL.
He said that there was only a working relationship between the MMA and the People’s Party Parliamentarians and there was no alliance between the two parties.
Referring to the proposed appointment of Ishratul Ibad as Sindh governor, Asadullah said” “His name has been proposed to spread terrorism in the province.”
