[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI) Emir Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
on Thursday said that Minar-e-Pakistain symbolised the effort of the Pak nation and that the JI was starting a struggle to complete the Pakistain movement as envisioned by Quaid-e-Azam.
He was speaking to the media at Minar-e-Pakistain which he visited to review arrangements for the JI Ijtema being held from November 21 to 23.
Sirajul Haq said that Quaid-e-Azam had started the Pakistain movement with the adoption of the Pakistain resolution on 23rd of March, 1940.
The JI leader said that feudal lords and capitalists brought up by the British sabotaged the Quaid's movement and drifted it from its goal of making Pakistain an Islamic welfare state.
He said the JI would revive the same movement at the Ijtema which would be attended by people from every nook and corner of the country.