LAHORE - A group of religious parties, Milli Yakjehti Council, has been reactivated to counter ‘conspiracies by imperialistic forces to make Pakistan a secular state’.
In a meeting yesterday, the leaders of the component parties expressed their resolved to make the council a robust alliance to achieve the targets set by Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani.
They decided to resist any move of government to amend blasphemy laws. They said the efforts will be made to make successful the Chehlum of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, at Islamabad on March 27.
JUP-Noorni president Sahibzada Abual Khair Zubair presided over the meeting at Jamiatul Muntazer in Model Town while JI leader Liaqat Baloch, Islami Tehreek leader Allama Sajid Naqvi, Tanzeem-e-Islami head Akif Saeed, Hafiz Riaz Hussain Najfi, Allama Hussain Awan and others attended.
The leaders asked government to take back the women protection law and expressed concern over the proposed recommendations of Punjab government for “un-Islamic changes” in educational curriculum at primary and high school level.
The religious parties’ gathering at Mansora had already set March 27 deadline for the government to take back the woman safety law. The leaders said that the West hatched conspiracy to widen sectarian divide in the Muslim world and airing Saudi-Irani conflict. Putting ban on Hizbullah and dismissal of elected Al-akhwan government in Egypt were also episodes of the conspiracy hatched by imperialistic forces to divide the Ummah, they said. The council also condemned executions of JI Bangladeshi leaders in Bangladesh. They said all efforts would be made to make successful Ulam Mashaikh Conference at Islamabad on April 2.
Meanwhile head of JUP other faction Pir Ijaz Hashmi in a separate statement highlighted the need for formation of another alliance of religious parties. He said that Milli Yakjehti Council was no more effective after death of Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Muthida Majlis-e-Amal after Shah Ahmed Noorani hence there was a need to form another alliance of religious parties, he added.