Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has said that Minar-e-Pakistan symbolised the honour, strength and struggle of the Pakistani nation and the JI is starting a movement for the completion of Pakistan movement.
In a statement released from Lahore, Sirajul Haq said Quaid-e-Azam had started the Pakistan movement with the adoption of Pakistan resolution at this spot on March 23, 1940, but the feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists brought up by the British sabotaged the Quaid’s movement and drifted it away from the goal of Islamic welfare state although the Quaid had declared the Holy Quran and the Sunnah as the constitution of this state.
He said the JI would revive the same movement at the ijtema which would be attended by a large number of people from every nook and corner of the country. The JI chief invited the people of Lahore to throng the gathering in large numbers and play host to the compatriots coming from all over the country.
Sirajul Haq said that millions of the Muslims of the sub-continent participated in the Pakistan Movement and had to migrate from India to this Muslim homeland. He said these millions had not offered sacrifices simply for freedom from the British or the Hindus or for a piece of land comprising mountains and plains. The goal before them was the establishment of an Islamic state on the model of the state of Madinah where nobody was slave of other and where rule of law and justice prevailed, and the rich and the poor enjoyed equal rights, he added. He said the JI was beginning a fresh movement for realising this goal.
He said the corrupt and incompetent rulers had failed even in protecting the geographical borders of Pakistan and the eastern wing of the country fell apart from the mainland in 1971.
He said due to callousness and apathy of the rulers, the JI leaders in Bangladesh were being persecuted and sentenced to death although they had rendered huge sacrifices for the sake of Pakistan. He said Prof Ghulam Azam had breathed his last behind the bars, Abdul Qadir Mullah had been hanged to death, and death sentences had been announced against two other JI leaders – Mutiur Rahman Nizami and Mir Qasim Ali – but the Pakistan government was maintaining a criminal silence on the issue.
The JI chief said the colonial powers were bent upon wiping out this country by thrusting a nuclear war on it and they were also trying to split this country on racial and ethnic basis as had been done in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Separately, Milli Yakjehti Council (MYC) President Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch strongly condemned the torturing of a Christian couple to death at Kot Radha Kishan and called for a high-level enquiry into the incident.
They said the enquiry committee of the MYC, Punjab, would examine the Kot Radha Kirshan tragedy in details.
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