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KARACHI, Aug 5: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Sunday said that the Pakistani nation had now clearly seen who its real friends and foes were, and the end to dictatorship was its top-most agenda.
Addressing a ceremony at Jamia Hanfia, Malir, via telephone, he claimed that Islamabad would soon be vacated by dictators through a peaceful mass struggle on the platform of the APDM.
He said Islam is a universal religion of love, peace and brotherhood, but some vested interests in the West were engaging in negative propaganda against it.
He said that had the gory incident of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa taken place in some other part of the world, it would have drawn a huge reaction. But, he claimed, the sensitive issue was hushed up because those killed in it were Muslims.
He said that international organisations that claim to be the champions of human rights remained silent over the precious loss of innocent lives in the Lal Masjid tragedy.
He warned the rulers that now every household would become a Jamia Hafsa and Pakistanis would struggle to save their civilisation and Islamic identity.
Other speakers including Liaquat Baloch, Professor Ghafoor Ahmed, Asadullah Bhutto and Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui said that the JI in the past had struggled against dictators and would do the same now. They said the nation would hear good news soon.
They condemned the government for not allowing Juma prayers in the Lal Masjid. They said that the PPP and MQM, by opposing a resolution condemning US presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, have unveiled their real faces. He said that the nation would reject them in the coming polls.
They also condemned a recent Urdu film being screened in the country, saying that it was based on poisonous allegations against Islam and Muslims. Terming the release of the film a conspiracy against Muslim societies, they demanded that it be banned.
The speakers bitterly criticised the military operations in Balochistan and Waziristan and showed deep concern over the killings of innocent citizens.—PPI
