ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: Jamaat Ahl-i-Sunnat Pakistan (JASP) rejected on Saturday the efforts to turn the country into a secular state, interference in religious institutions, joint electorate system and class-based educational system, and demanded of the government to turn Pakistan “into a citadel of Islam” in accordance with the Objectives Resolution.

A resolution passed at an All-Pakistan Convention of the JASP said instead of becoming a “B” team of the government, the Jamaat would prefer to resist the government efforts of treating all religious institutions in the same mould.

The convention was addressed among others by JASP chief Allama Syed Riaz Hussain Shah, Prof Syed Mazhar Saeed Kazmi and Mufti Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Hazarvi.