Former caretaker Prime Minister and chief of National Peoples Party, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi called on Jama'at-i-Islami duce Qazi Hussain Ahmad at Mansoora. They discussed plans to forge an alliance between Majlas-i-Amal and National Peoples Party. Later a delegation of Jamaat Al Dawa comprising Hafiz Khalid Waleed, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, Maulana Ameer Hamza and Yehya Mujahid also called on Qazi Hussain Ahmad for discussions.
Majlis-i-Amal is an umbrella organization of eight religious parties with ties of burning love to Lashkar-i-Taiba, Sipah-i-Sahaba and the other usual suspects. It represents the core groups making up the Pak-Afghan Defense Council. It is headed, coincidentally, by Maulana Shah Ahmad Naurani, head of the Jamaat-i-Ulema Pakistan.
Yahya Mujahid is the spokesman for Lashkar.
I'm not sure, but I think Maulana Ameer Hamza is the Mir Hamza who was one one of the signatories on Binny's Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. He was the secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan at the time.
Jamaat-al-Dawa is the umbrella organization that covers Lashkar-e-Taiba. The umbrella group changed its name from Markaz al-Dawa wal-Irshad in December in an attempt to thwart the US freeze on its funds when Lashkar and Jaish-e-Mohammad were declared terrorist organizations. Curiously, it wasn't banned when its component organizations were.
Hafiz Khalid Walid is the head of Lashkar. |