****JI’s take on MQM.
Lahore—Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hasan, has said the people issuing directives for collecting particulars of the mosque Imams and Khatibs and the Ulema were a total failure in spite of being a party in the federal and the provincial government.
Talking to delegations from different parts of the country attending the JI central workshop, he said that ever since the MQM came into being, the people of Karachi had been collecting dead bodies, while extortion and target killings had become a routine. The target killers and extortionists were roaming about freely yet the party claimed to be a revolutionary.
Syed Munawar Hasan questioned the MQM’s credentials to collect the information about mosque Imams and the Ulema, and the motive behind the move.
He asked on whose agenda the MQM was serving. The MQM, he said, was itself a controversial body, and there should be no such move as would add to the dissention in the country.
The JI Ameer said that certain people were trying to exploit the Malala Yousufzai incident to realize heinous designs . He said that a particular group working on the US agenda was involved in the Malala attack and that was why the issue was being propagated at international level.
While condemning the attack on Malala as inhuman and immoral, the JI Ameer took exception to the views of the intellectuals appearing on the TV and the columnists that the Malala incident should not be mixed up with the killings of innocent children in drone attacks. He said the life of every human being was sacred and no body had the right to take his life.
He said unfortunately, the drone attacks were being made with the consent of the Pakistani rulers, and that was why no voice was being raised against that.—SANA