LAHORE, Oct 20: The Jamaat-i-Islami will organize a congregation of political, trade and professional associations affiliated with it in October next year at Qurtaba near Rawalpindi.

This was announced by party amir Qazi Husain Ahmad at a rally of the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) at Ichhra on Monday.

He said the event would go a long way in establishing the rule of elected representatives of the masses and sovereignty of parliament.

The Qazi, who is also vice-president of the MMA, a political alliance of six religious parties, said the alliance like, in Pakistan, would assemble the Ummat in Iraq and other countries on a single platform.

He said Muslims themselves were target of terrorism in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Afghan-istan, Bosnia, Chechnya and other regions but even then they were being labelled as terrorists.

“Muslim scholars are being murdered in their own countries. But the victims, Islamic movements, were being maligned for the incidents.”

He said the ‘terrorist’ West could be countered only after forging unity among our ranks. World peace could be ensured only through alleviation of poverty and redressing deprivation.

IJT central president Naveed Anwar said students would continue their struggle for improving education system of the country and making the country a welfare state.