JI seeks polls within three months

RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islamic (JI) chief Syed Manawwar Hassan has demanded polls within a period of three months to resolve the problems faced by the people and country.

Addressing a public meeting here on Sunday, he said that the failure of the governments in delivering is being attributed to the failure of the state. Therefore, he said sweeping poll is the only solution to the prevailing situation in the country.

He said that Jamaat-e-Islami is an Islamic movement, whose aim is only bringing Islamic revolution and establishment of judicious system in the country.

He said that the holding of such big public meeting has proved that the people are ready to work for the supremacy of Islam. He said that they are struggling for the establishment of judicious system and redressal of the grievances of the poor and needy classes of the society.

Condemning the Nato air strike on Salala check post, he said it was not first incident involving the United States in the destabilisation of Pakistan as the attack on the Naval Base in Karachi was made on the behest of the United States. He said that the United States in the name of Al-Qaeda and Taliban has imposed undeclared war on Pakistan. He said that the interest of Pakistan and United States are conflicting with each other.

He recalled that in 1971 India dismembered Pakistan on the behest of United States and former Soviet Union. He said that the United States is now eyeing the resources of the Central Asia and for this purpose it is destabilising Pakistan.

Addressing the public meeting Qazi Hussein Ahmad, former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami warned government of countrywide agitation movement in case it restores supply to the forces of United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).

He condemned the Nato attack on Pakistani posts in Mohmand Agency as cruelty and urged the government for blocking supply to US and Nato forces forever. He warned that in case of the restoration of supply a countrywide agitation would be launched against the government.

He said that Islamic revolution is knocking the door of Pakistan, as every citizen of the country is ready for bringing change in the country. He said that the people had come to their mouth from the old and outdated systems and want resolution to change the system.

The Deputy Chief Jamaat-e-Islami and former senior minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Siraj-ul-Haq criticised the provincial government of ANP, saying instead of Awami National Party (ANP) it should be called American National Party.

He said that the policies of the government has rendered 29000 houses destroyed and more than 35000 people martyred in the country.