May 11, 2007	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 23, 1428

ISLAMABAD, May 10: The Lal Masjid administration on Thursday urged the lawyers’ community to convert their anti-government efforts into a struggle for enforcement of Sharia, adding that judiciary’s independence was a ‘temporary cause’.

“Enforcement of Sharia has a wider perspective which also covers the freedom of judiciary,” deputy in-charge of Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi told Dawn.

He said that the real Islamic system provided more powers to a judge than did the current system.

“Therefore lawyers and political parties should join hands with Lal Masjid for enforcement of Sharia in the country,” he said.

“The solution to all problems is there in the Islamic system and once Sharia is enforced, all major and petty problems will be resolved automatically,” he said.

Lal Masjd Imam and Jamia Hafsa in-charge Maulana Abdul Aziz said the struggle against the regime would continue till the end of the regime and total implementation of Islamic Sharia.

In a statement, he called upon people, including the lawyer community, to speed up their efforts for the implementation of Sharia and rid themselves of the shackles of the despotic form of the government.

He urged the government to establish the writ of Allah Almighty instead of its own as the country was suffering from different ills due to the government’s failure.