LAHORE – Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Haji Fazal Karim, while addressing the “Istehkam-e-Pakistan Sunni Conference” at Minar-e-Pakistan on Sunday, announced a train march from Karachi to Islamabad on August 14 against the blasts on shrines in addition to arranging conventions for the lawyers, doctors, women, labourers and students.
Karim said SIC would address the issues of women, Kashmir and the poor. He said that land would be distributed among landless people and added that SIC would end the sense of deprivation among the people of Balouchistan. He further said that the current rulers are America’s slaves. He said that the orders from the White House should not be obeyed anymore.
SIC Secretary General Haji Hanif Tayyab said that SIC would end VVIP culture and would implement a unified education system for both the rich and the poor. He stressed the need to promote nationalism in order to get rid of regional and ethnical biases. Sarwat Ejaz Qadri said that the people responsible for the blasts at the shrines were trying to spread sectarianism.
He said that Pakistan would have to come out of the slavery of IMF. He said that the government should stop providing “oxygen” to the terrorists. Pir Afzal Qadri said blasphemy would end if the Muslim countries blocked oil supply. Some of the resolutions passed in the conference demanded the government ensure the security of shrines, American priest Terry Jones be given death penalty, Higher Education Committee not be dissolved, measures be taken to get rid of load-shedding in addition to condemnation of Raymond Davis’s release.
Allama Syed Hussain-ud-Deen Shah, Haji Hanif Tayyab, Sahibzada Mazhar Saeed, Sarwat Ejaz Qadri, Pir Muhmmad Afzal Qadri and others also addressed the conference and said that suicide bombing has been termed as haraam (forbidden) in a “Fatwa” given by the scholars from 55 different countries.
The speakers also demanded the government to build the Kalabagh Dam in order to cope with the prevailing energy crises and asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu action against suicide attacks at markets, shrines and other places.
Earlier the government allowed SIC to hold a conference at Minar-e-Pakistan after handing over the responsibility of the security to the SIC. The SIC workers had also staged a sit-in outside Minar-e-Pakistan to get the admission to hold the conference at the venue.
