LARKANA: Sindh Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) general secretary Maulana Rashid Soomro has called for action against all those involved in the Baldia Town (Karachi) tragedy, no matter they are individuals or parties.
Addressing a meeting of the party’s Larkana executive committee at the Jamia Islamia Isha’atul Quran wal Hadees here on Tuesday, he said government was not sincere in bringing the culprits to justice. “The PPP government in an attempt to cover up its ineptness is set to invite a linguistic party to rejoin the government. When government will support terrorists, how will it be possible to maintain peace?”
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SUKKUR: Maulana Rashid Soomro, Mufti Saud Afzal Halejvi, Maulana Abdul Haq Mahar and several other JUI-F leaders also visited Sukkur on Tuesday to review the arrangements for the Deeni madaris rally.
The meeting, chaired by Maulana Nasir Soomro and attended by heads of various seminaries and prayer leaders, was held to review the arrangements for the Feb 26 ‘Deeni madaris rally’ to be taken out in Sukkur.
It endorsed action against terrorists but warned against causing any harm to religious seminaries in the name of fight against terrorism and terrorists.
It noted that a propaganda against seminaries was unleashed under a conspiracy, and observed that the government seemed helpless before terrorists and had lost its writ.
They told workers that the rally would be launch of a countrywide protest against the federal government’s decision to shut down seminaries in Islamabad and certain other actions against Ulema, seminaries, mosques and schools throughout the country. They described all such actions as part of an international conspiracy aimed at changing the Islamic orientation of Pakistan’s constitution to secular one. They vowed to resist all such conspiracies.
Unveiling the protest plan, they said a huge rally would be taken out from Lakhi Morr which would end at Clock Tower and on March 26, a bigger rally and sit-in to be led by party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman would be held in Islamabad.
Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2015
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