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| 18 November 2004 | Thursday | 05 Shawwal 1425 |
JI lashes out at army's role in politics
KARACHI, Nov 17: The Jamaat-i-Islami deputy chief, Senator Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, has said the uniform issue had gained importance because the army did not like to part with power, and the civil and military bureaucracy were working to fail Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
He said although Pakistan and India had attained independence at the same time, the India army had never come into power, not even for a single day. While half of our national life had passed under army rule, he said.
"The army rule had brought miseries to people, and the public meeting on November 28 at Nishtar Park would turn out to be a vote of no confidence against the army's intervention in politics," he said.
Prof Ghafoor, who was speaking at an Eid Milan Party of the JI Liaquatabad on Wednesday recalled that the 1977 PNA movement was launched from Karachi, and Liaquatabad had played the central role in it. He said that Karachiites had suffered the most during past regimes.
The MQM, which had emerged with enthusiasm and fervour to eliminate injustices had today become an instrument of the establishment, he remarked. The senator said that since its (MQM) formation, some 25,000 youth had been killed in Karachi so far, and not a single day had passed when someone was not killed by being declared as a traitor of the organisation.
He said that MQM was in power in Sindh, but there as no check on dacoities, theft and extortion, except for a ban on recruitment. The JI leader said that people of Karachi had always faced dictators, and they were alive to the situation. As such, their presence could not allow strengthening the dictatorship.
Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui said that the uniform was not the necessity of the nation but of the US, as she wanted to see only one man powerful, who could be used through pressure to obtaining its objectives.
Meanwhile, JI Secretary General Syed Munawwar Hasan, talking to the bereaved family members of the May 12 by-polls incidents, said the killers of Ulema and MMA activists were present in the rank and file of the government, and despite being pointed out by the MMA, the killers had not been arrested. But he hoped a day would come when the killers would be taken to task, adds PPI.
He also went to the residences of Late Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and Mufti Muhammad Jamil Khan along wit Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui and Sarfaraz and prayed for them.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of Jamaat-i-Islami and central leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Syed Munawar Hasan, has vowed to hold public meeting on November on 28 in Karachi "at any cost", saying any hurdle by the government in this regard would be "strongly resisted".
"We'll come on the streets and strongly resist any government attempt to thwart our scheduled public gathering in Karachi" he said, while speaking at an Eid Milan party organized by the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba on Wednesday.
Provincial leaders and activists of component parties of the MMA, who attended the traditional Eid Milan party, vowed to attend the protest gathering on November 28.
Mr Hasan opined that Karachiites had always played a key role in movements against dictators and expected that they would continue supporting opposition parties in their scheduled protest campaign against autocratic rule.
JI Karachi Amir Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui, on the occasion presented tributes to the mujahideen fighting in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul, the Indian-held Kashmir, Afghanistan and Palestine, saying they had not given up their struggle against the US, Israeli and Indian forces despite the military might of the latter three.
According to him, the president's uniform was the main reason of the price hike, unemployment and increasing suicide rate in the country while the educational system was being secularized on US directives.
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