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| Centre interfering in NWFP govt's affairs, says Qazi |
| 2004-09-04 |
| Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed said on Friday that the federal government was illegally interfering in the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government's affairs and that the religious alliance would foil all such plots. The JI chief said there was no pressure group or accountability group within the MMA and that this was just propaganda by the MMA's opponents. He said he would call Deputy Speaker Ikramullah Shahid and MMA Provincial Information Secretary Mufti Kafayatullah to settle the matter. Mr Hussain, who was talking to reporters at Masjid Mohabbat Khan, criticised the countrywide crackdown on religious seminaries, saying the action was being taken at the behest of the United States. "The US and its allies want to defame Islam and Muslims and the crackdown on religious institutions is part of that drive," the JI chief said. Mr Hussain asked the government to change the pro-US policies, warning that the religious alliance would launch an agitation against the government if it did not change its pro-US policies. The MMA leader said the provincial government was bound to enforce the Hasba Act as the law would solve the problems of the people and ensure implementation of Sharia. He said the Hasba Act was neither a parallel judicial system nor contrary to the country's laws or Holy Quran and Sunnah. |
| Posted by:Fred |