October 05, 2008	Sunday	Shawwal 05, 1429

TIMERGARA, Oct 4: Tehrik Nifaz Sharia-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad on Saturday announced that a division-level rally for establishment of peace in the region would be held here on October 9.

Addressing a news conference hare he informed the media that divisional ‘Shura’ (council) of the TNSM had decided to hold its first public rally at Timergara.

The TNSM chief said Muslims and Tanzim’s activists from Malakand, Buner, Swat, Shangla, Bajaur, Dir, Hazara and Kohistan would attend this rally. He requested the administration and the law enforcement agencies not to restrict them from participation as it would pave the way for establishing peace in the region.

TNSM’s ‘Shura’ members Bacha Sardar, Bacha Gul, Sultan Mehmood, Bahrawar Khan, Zahoorul Haq and others were present on the occasion.

Maulana Sufi Mohammad avoided replying to questions from the journalists and just maintained that everything would be cleared at the October 9 rally. Even when he was asked about his remarks on the government’s ‘Nizam-e-Adle’ regulation draft sent to him, he said he would present his opinion during the rally to be held on October 9 at Timergara.

After his release from D. I. Khan jail on April 22 this year, it will be his first address to a public rally. Sources close to Maulana Sufi Mohammad told Dawn that he was now determined to play his active role in bringing peace to the region and lead the scattered Islamists to the right direction.

JI LEADER: Provincial chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Sirajul Haq said that conspiracies were being hatched at the international level to establish an ‘Ismaili state’ by joining Gilgit, Chitral, Bajaur and Dir; however the JI would not let anyone do so.

He stated this while addressing an Eid Milan party organised by the JI Talash chapter on Saturday which was attended by hundreds of people from far and wide.

Siraj said that due to increasing lawlessness and militancy, legislators and rulers themselves were scared of living in their respective constituencies and had been fleeing away from their areas.

Without naming the Charsadda suicide attack, the JI leader said that the rulers who could not protect their own leaders and hujras had no right to stay in power.

He asked how they could claim to protect lives and property of the common man.

The ongoing war on terror, Siraj said was actually a war for getting more and more US dollars and it was not a war against terrorism.

“The state was passing through a critical period of its history, with a collapsed economy, skyrocketing prices, terror and lawlessness but our rulers were still living luxurious life,” Siraj charged.

He said an Islamic government was the only solution to the problems being faced by the nation at the moment. The JI leader said to guide the nation in the right direction the party had planned to hold a big congregation to be held at ‘Minar-e-Pakistan’ on October, 24 and 25.

Without pointing to Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Sirajul Haq appealed to the religious parties to part ways with the government and makes an alliance of all like-minded forces so as to save the country.

Other speakers stressed the need to follow the lessons learnt during the Ramazan in the remaining eleven months of the year.