HYDERABAD, June 11: The Jamaat-i-Islami may make seat adjustment with the PML-N for coming general elections for which talks have already been initiated, says the party’s secretary general Syed Munawar Hassan.

Speaking at the concluding session of the three-day training workshop at Mansoora, Hala on Sunday, he said generals will come under criticism if they begin giving political statements.

Rulers have been trapped by their own follies by attacking the judiciary he said and added that all their schemes have backfired.

The JI leader deplored the celebrations in Islamabad on May 12 when Karachi was bleeding. The MQM was harassing people because of the backing of people in uniform he said and added that people supporting it out of fear.

History had proven time and again that tyrants and fascists always get more votes Munawar Hassan said and demanded of the government to grant Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto their democratic rights.

He dispelled the impression of differences in the MMA saying that conspiracies against it won’t succeed.

Moulana Asadullah Bhutto, Dr Mumtaz Ali Memon, Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui, Rashid Naseem and others also spoke on the occasion.

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