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PESHAWAR, Oct 17: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Siraj-ul-Haq has asked people to get united to launch a struggle under the banner of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) to end military rule in the country.
According to a press release issued by the party on Wednesday, he said that the Musharraf government had created a sense of insecurity among people. The ongoing military operation in Waziristan had forced people to leave their homes and shift to safe places, he added.
At a meeting with party workers in district Dir, Mr Haq urged them to launch an organised movement against military rulers.
He termed the military operation in Waziristan as state terrorism and said the country’s army was fighting against its own people.
Mr Haq said that during Gen Pervez Musharraf’s rule people had witnessed extreme inflation. Price-hike had made life difficult for a common man, he said, adding that the poor law and order had badly affected businesses and increased unemployment.
The JI leader urged the party workers to come out on the streets to protest against the policies of the government, the press release said.
KARAK: The Jamaat-i-Islami’s Karak chapter held a protest demonstration here on Wednesday against the military operation in Waziristan and bomb explosions at music shops and blamed the government for the deteriorating law-and-order situation in tribal areas and the NWFP.
The procession started from Peer Odeen Shah mosque and ended at Saddam Chowk. It was led by JI leader Prof Ibrahim
Prof Ibrahim, Maulana Samiur Rehman, Maulana Mohammad Aslam and Mohammad Azam Humayun addressed the protesters.
The speakers regretted that due to excessive and indiscriminate shelling by security forces on residential areas in Waziristan, more than 20,000 families had migrated to Bannu and other districts.
They claimed that Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had agreed at the time of independence that the army would not enter the tribal belt, but Gen Pervez Musharraf violated the agreement and moved in the armed forces there.
They alleged that Gen Musharraf was fighting the United States’ war on the country’s soil.The JI leaders said the elements who had claimed that the Shabab-i-Milli workers were involved in bomb blasts at CD and music shops in Karak were misleading the law-enforcement agencies and the public.
