Monday, 12 November 2012

Religious parties agree to unite for next polls

ISLAMABAD: The Ulema and religious leaders of various parties have reached a consensus for electoral reconciliation between religious groups and parties for the upcoming general elections.

“The religious groups should get united before the elections and the masses will favour religious parties to stop way of secular forces to come into power in the country,” former Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Qazi Hussain Ahmad who is also President of the Milli Yek Jehti Council (MYJC) said at post-International Muslims Unity Conference that was participated by leaders of religious parties and foreign participants.

He said that Mufti Rafi Usmani also talked to him on telephone to say that the religious parties should not be divided in the next elections and all the groups should get united at one platform. “There should also be no confusion among the masses that the next general elections will be contested between religious and secular powers,” he said.

He said the Ulema had also called upon the Pakistan government and other Muslim countries to take notice of actions of respective governments in Bangladesh and other countries to suppress Islamic movements. “The United States and India want to turn Bangladesh into a secular state,” he said, adding, the Bangladesh government is demanding execution of 80-year JI leader Professor Ghulam Azam who struggled for keeping West Pakistan and East Pakistan - now Bangladesh - united.

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) amir Syed Munawwar said that the Ulema should furnish solid proposal to chalk out future plan of action. “The religious parties should reach a minimum consensus that their vote bank will not divide in the next elections,” he added.

Mufti Taqi Usmani said that even a worst Muslim is better than the secular forces.

Maulvi Abdul Rehman who is nazim of a seminary at Chahar Bagh, Iran, said the successful international conference on Muslim unity is defeat of secular forces.

Liaquat Baloch, Maulana Abdul Rashid Turabi, Hafiz Hussain and representatives of Islamic parties from Turkey, Tajikistan and Malaysia also spoke at the gathering.

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