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‘JI won’t be a part of any grand alliance’

Central leader Jamaat Islami Syed Munawar Hassan has said on Monday that the party was not going to be part of any grand alliance....

PML-N leaders assigned task to contact other parties for formation of...

PML-N has assigned responsibilities to its leaders for making direct or back door contacts with other parties being represented in parliament for forging Grand...

JI, Ikhwanul Muslimoon to join hands for resolving Ummah’s problems

The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and the Ikhwanul Muslimoon of Egypt have decided to make joint efforts for the solution of the Muslim Ummah's problems including...

Prof Rabbani seeks JUI-F, JI’s help for peace with Taliban

Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and the current chief of the High Peace Council, Friday in Islamabad held meetings with the leaders of...

JI, JWP want end to mily operation in Balochistan

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan and Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Talal Akbar Bugti told a joint press conference on Sunday that the...

JI denounces rise in electricity, gas tariff

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Naib Amir Senator Professor Khurshid Ahmad, on Thursday, strongly condemned the government’s decision of another rise in electricity and gas tariff. ...

JI to re-launch journal

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) is planning to re-launch its 70-years old interpretative journal Aalmi Tarjuman-ul-Quran with a new name Tarjuman-ul-Quran. The new journal comprising 112 pages...

JI chief suspects foreign involvement in attack on PNS Mehran

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has termed the attack on the PNS Mehran, Karachi ‘well organized terrorism’ and has alleged the involvement of...

JI condemns attack on Saudi consulate

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan, former JI chief Qazi Husain Ahmed and Secretary General Liaquat Baloch on Monday condemned the shooting at the Saudi...

JI workers rally against Osama’s killing

Dozens of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) workers on Sunday held a protest rally in front of the National Press Club against the violation of Pakistan’s airspace...

JI takes out rallies against Abbottabad operation

On the call of Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Syed Munawar Hassan, a large number of JI workers took out a rally in the city to protest...

JI chief condemns loadshedding

Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has condemned the power crisis in the country and unannounced load shedding. He said this was because of the...

VOTING FOR PU’S FATE – JI aims for the VC’s seat

LAHORE - The result of the syndicate's elections, which will be held today at the Punjab University (PU), will decide if the pro-Jamat-i-Islami (JI) elements in the varsity are going to succeed in grabbing the post of the PU Vice Chancellor (VC) in the coming year 2012 or not. Pro-JI teachers are pinning their hopes on Prof Dr Haris Rashid who is fighting the elections against the panel supported by the incumbent VC.A PU professor, seeking anonymity, said that Dr Haris could be the

JI chief supports army troops withdrawal from Sui and Gwadar

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan welcomed on Tuesday Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's announcement of troops' withdrawal from Sui and Gwadar and termed it a step in the right direction. He said General Kayani's statement that the army would be withdrawn from Sui and Gwadar within two months and it would not take part in any operation in Balochistan in the future indicated the realization that issues could not be resolved by force and military operation, adding

JI women protest against Hijab ban in France

LAHORE - The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) women's wing demonstrated against the ban on wearing hijab in France outside Lahore Press Club on Thursday. JI Women and Family Commission President Samyia Rahel Qazi, Rabyya Tariq, Gulfreen Nawaz, and Shaheena Tariq led the protest. Dozens of veiled women from all walks of life including professionals, housewives and students participated in the protest.
Women carrying JI flags chanted slogans and brandished placards saying "Hijab is our

JI condemns increase in POL prices

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami leader Professor Khurshid Ahmad on Saturday criticised the "unjustified increase" in the prices of petroleum products imposed on the people of Pakistan in the name of international price hike.
In a statement, he said ten percent increase in the prices of petroleum and thirteen percent in diesel was totally unjustified.
"In the international market, despite Middle East situation, the oil prices have gone down from $114 per barrel in January 2011 to

Pasban city president’s nephew ‘abducted’ for having ‘close ties with...

KARACHI - Pasban Karachi President Usman Moazzam's nephew was abducted from near his house in Gulshan-e-Hadeed on Saturday. Moazzam said that Aazib Imtiaz Qudwai was kidnapped because he has close ties with the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). Aazib's father Nafees Qudwai said, "My son and I were on our way to the mosque to offer the Fajr prayer when an Indus Corolla without a number plate collided with him. Three men carrying weapons got out of the car, forced him into the vehicle and drove