KARACHI: JI’s rally pays tribute to Hezbollah, Hamas
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Aug 16: Paying rich tribute to Hezbollah and Hamas resistance movements, Jamaat-i-Islami leaders on Wednesday said that the handful of Mujahideen resisting the military giant, Israel, in Lebanon had proved that wars could not be won with the might of weapon, but Islamic spirit and faith. The fighters had shattered the pride of US and Israel which, on the basis of their destructive arms and technology, had been regarding themselves ‘invincible’, the JI leaders pointed out.
They were addressing a women’s rally organized by the JI’s women wing, Karachi, near the Mazar-i-Quaid here on Wednesday to express solidarity with Palestinian and Lebanese people.
JI Secretary General Syed Munawwar Hasan, MNA Ayesha Munawwar and Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui were among those who spoke on the occasion.
The rally adopted several resolutions, one of which paid glowing tributes to the resistance movements for handing a humiliating defeat to the US-backed Israeli forces in Lebanon. Another resolution criticised the Organisation of Islamic countries for failing to protect the interests of Ummah.
Through yet another resolution, the rally warned the government of Pakistan that if any attempt was made to get the Hudood laws amended through the National Assembly, this would invite rage of 160 million people of the country. The Hudood laws guaranteed protection to women, and the rulers considered the laws a big obstacle in their luxuries, it noted.
Syed Munawwar Hasan told the rally that there was an urgent need for promoting ‘Jihad culture’ in the country, and deplored that Gen Musharraf had been describing jihad as ‘extremism’. He declared that the rulers’ dream of amending the Hudood laws would never come true.
Ms Ayesha Munawwar said that every woman in the world appeared grieved over the massacres of women and children in Lebanon by Israeli forces but the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was still advocating the Israeli war on unarmed civilians.
She also criticised the UN for its ‘criminal silence’ over the reign of terror let loose by the Zionist forces, and said that it was the UN’s double standards that most of its members did no more have confidence in the world body.
Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui said that if Muslim children in Qana, Lebanon, were not secure, then people in London and Tel Aviv would no more remain secure.
Many participants of the women rally were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against US and Israel, as well as the Pakistan government. Slogans of some other banners warned Pakistani rulers against amending Hudood Ordinance.
KARACHI, Aug 16: Paying rich tribute to Hezbollah and Hamas resistance movements, Jamaat-i-Islami leaders on Wednesday said that the handful of Mujahideen resisting the military giant, Israel, in Lebanon had proved that wars could not be won with the might of weapon, but Islamic spirit and faith. The fighters had shattered the pride of US and Israel which, on the basis of their destructive arms and technology, had been regarding themselves ‘invincible’, the JI leaders pointed out.
