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LAHORE - Dark clouds of uncertainty hover over "Tarjaman-ul-Quran", an interpretative journal of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), being published since May 1933. Five months ago, the publisher of this monthly magazine, Syed Hussain Farooq Maudoodi, the son of late Maulana Abu-ul-Aala Maudoodi, wrote a letter to Professor Khursheed Ahmed, the editor of Tarjaman-ul-Quran, and other senior members of Jamaat-i-Islami. In his letter, the US-based businessman, Hussain Farooq, raised the issue of

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan and JI Secretary General Liaquat Baloch strongly condemned the bomb blast in a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) rally in Sawabi welcoming the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday.
In a joint statement here, the JI leaders said that the federal and provincial governments had completely failed to protect the life and property of the people. They said such subversive activities would continue as long as the Central

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan on Sunday asked the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to convene a summit on the issue of desecration of Holy Quran and Namoos-e-Risalat in the backdrop of incident of burning a copy of Holy Quran by a US pastor.
Addressing a rally at the Blue Area in Islamabad, the JI chief also urged the government to convene an All Parties Conference on the issue. He condemned in the strongest term the incident of burning

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Thursday asked the government to convene emergency meetings of the UN and foreign ministers of the entire Muslim world to record protest at the international level against the desecration of the Holy Quran by an American pastor. Speaking at a news conference here, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch termed the desecration of the Holy Quran by the pastor as 'ideological terrorism' of the US and the West which, he said, was condemnable in the strongest

LAHORE - Jamaat-i-Islami Women and Family Commission on Thursday held a seminar in Mansoora on Thursday, on the topic, "Pakistani women and current national scenario." The speakers on the occasion spoke against the desecration of the Quran by Pastor Terry Jones and demanded that the government should cut off its diplomatic relations with the US. "Desecration of the Quran is an act of terrorism. Pastor Jones should immediately be hanged. War against terror has piled up uncountable

SAHIWAL - Jamaat-e-Islami took out a rally against the release of US national Raymond Davis, the killer of two Pakistanis.
The JI rally passed through the city's main bazaars, holding the banners inscribed with slogans against the federal and Punjab rulers. Addressing the protesters, the rally leaders said it was the outcome of a secret deal between Preasident Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and both of them compelled the heirs of the families of the

LAHORE - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) have decided to hold joint protests against Raymond Davis's release from today. The decision was made in a telephonic contact between the JI Chief Syed Munawar Hasan and PTI Chief Imran Khan on Thursday. Accordingly, Syed Munawar Hasan will lead the joint demonstration in the city on Friday, while Imran Khan will lead the rally at Rawalpindi. Munawar, while talking to different delegations at Mansoora, said that the

ISLAMABAD - Refusing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman's request for the immediate revival of the defunct Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) told Fazl on Saturday that the matter would be decided once elections were announced.
"JI chief Munawwar Hassan told Fazl that MMA is basically an electoral alliance of religious parties and the decision regarding its revival will be taken once new elections are announced, either mid-term or

LAHORE - The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) organised separate protests against the US and American national Raymond Davis on Sunday.
The ISO held a rally from the Lahore Press Club to the Punjab Assembly. The protesters chanted anti-US slogans and announced that they would launch an anti-US movement. They hanged Davis' effigy and burnt it afterwards along with a US flag. ISO President Rehman Shah said that the US was responsible for all incidents

Faisalabad - Divisional Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Engineer Azeem Randhawa has held American intelligence agency, CIA, responsible for the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti. He was killed by the CIA to divert the global attention from the case of Raymond Davis, the US spy who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, he said. Engineer Azeem Randhawa was determined that it was necessary to free Pakistan from the US grip and restore the national dignity, he said and

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has said that Federal Minister Shahbaz Bhatti's murder was a conspiracy to create bad blood between the Muslims and the Christians. In his Friday's sermon at Mansoora, he said the 'murder's responsibility rested with the govt' because it could not provide adequate security to Bhatti. He said the Pakistani Muslims respected the minorities and their worship places, and the minorities were free to lead their lives in accordance with their

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Pakistan on Thursday came up with a clear and categorical stance on the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, saying it was condemnable in the maximum possible terms. "A murder whether it is of a Muslim or a Christian can never be justified. A Muslim cannot even think of killing a Christian on difference of opinion," JI Islamabad Secretary General Khalid Farooq and others said in a statement. They said the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti was a

KARACHI - Malik Munsaf Awan, the lawyer who volunteered to represent Muhammad Faheem's family in court in the case against US citizen Raymond Davis, is allegedly pressuring the family into 'becoming pawns' for rightwing elements, sources close to the family told Pakistan Today on Monday.
Awan, who refused to comment on the issue, is associated with the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), and had come to Faheem's family to volunteer to represent them pro bono. Soon after, however, he started

ISLAMABAD - The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have warned the government of dire consequences in case Raymond Davis was released without fulfilling legal requirements; however, the two parties differ on a possible out-of-court settlement.
The JI, which fears an 'illegal' out-of-court settlement, has changed its posture on the issue, demanding the government book the US national under the Anti-Terrorism Act in order to make the offence non-compoundable

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Syed Munawar Hasan urged the Pakistani media to unite for national honour and sovereignty. He was addressing the newly elected members of the Lahore Press Club (LPC) at a luncheon he hosted in honour of LPC President Sarmad Bashir and his team at Mansoora on Thursday.
JI Deputy Chief Chaudhry Aslam Saleemi, JI Secretary General Liaquat Baloch, JI Public Relations Wing Chief Safdar Ali Chaudhary and veteran journalist Bashsir A Qureshi were also

LAHORE - There are many things wrong with Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji,' but the worst part is that nobody seems to have even bothered to rise above mediocrity in this excuse of a film. Bhandarkar veers away from his "slice of life" style of cinema and moves to comedy, but it has the same cliches, the same dumbed-down dialogues, and strangely enough for a comedy, very crass humour that is more offensive than funny.
Ajay Devgan plays Naren, an executive who is in the

LAHORE - Jamaat-i-Islami has strongly opposed the release of Raymond Davis under any pressure and warned if the rulers handed over Raymond Davis by compromising national honor and dignity, they won't survive; even Washington would not be able to shield them.
While speaking to a seminar on Monday held at Lahore Press Club, JI leaders said rulers must provide justice to the aggrieved families by disregarding every pressure. "The days of the US supremacy were over, states were