PESHAWAR, Feb 25: The Jamaat-i-Islami announced on Saturday that it would invite Hamas leader Ismail Hania, who has been nominated for the premiership of Palestine, to participate in a JI convention to be held in Nowshera next month.

JI’s provincial secretary-general Mushtaq Ahmed and convention organiser Sabir Hussain Awan, MNA, told reporters that veteran Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gillani would also address the convention through telephone from Srinagar.

Several delegations from various parts of the world would travel to Pakistan to participate in the three-day convention, they said. The JI leaders said that 27 committees had been constituted to finalize arrangements for accommodating thousands of people, including women and children, who would be coming to Nowshera for the convention. Separate sections would be made for women participants. Mr Ahmad said that the objective of the convention was to unite Muslims against conspiracies being hatched by western countries.—PPI