PESHAWAR: A group of sacked members of Jamaat-i-Islami from Karak district here on Tuesday announced parallel organisation and vowed to set up such units in the entire province to hold accountable corrupt people.

Addressing a press conference here, Maulana Saeedur Rehman, chief of the JI parallel group in Karak, said that they were the most senior members of the party in the district and rendered sacrifices for promoting its ideology.

“Now the party leadership has forgotten the basic ideology,” he alleged.

Flanked by Hayatullah Khan, Haji Qamar Gul, Dost Mohammad Khan, Eid Badshah, Gul Mohammad Ayaz, Mohamamd Ismail, Haji Mir Zaman, Mohammad Rauf and several other senior members of JI, he claimed that they were expelled from the party as they objected to corrupt practices by some party workers.

Demand judicial probe into BOK issue

“We were asked by the leadership to sit silent but as the members continued to raise voice in meetings and demanded judicial probe into the allegations levelled against a provincial minister in Bank of Khyber issue so we were expelled from the party,” said Mr Rehman.

He said that hundreds of senior members of the party in different districts were in contact with them.

He said that parallel organisations would be set up to revive the ideology of the founder of the party in real sense.

Mr Rehman said that party tickets were issued to people in violation of merit without taking on board the local shura that damaged the party.

“We do not want tickets or any kind of personal benefits but the leadership should take action against all those people, who are involved in corruption,” he said.

He also demanded probe into the Zakat funds, distributed by the provincial government.

He said that they would expose corrupt people if party leadership did not take prompt action in that regard.

However, JI provincial general secretary Abdul Wasi told this correspondent that those people did not have any relation with the party as they had been expelled for violating discipline.

Published in Dawn, January 24th, 2018