 PESHAWAR: The Islami Jamiat Lawyers (IJL) forum, Peshawar called Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who was killed recently in a US bombing, a great Muslim and a 'Mujahid' and condemned the statements by US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in which they called him a terrorist.
| All taht stuff about him cutting people's heads off and running international terror networds is just base calumny... |
The forum, in its meeting at the Peshawar District Bar Room on Friday, paid tribute to Al Zarqawi and said that he had fought against terrorist countries, who had killed thousands of innocent Muslims and had captured the resources of the ummah. The forum also offered fateha for Zarqawi. The participants expressed concerns over the killing of tribesmen in federally administered tribal areas (FATA) and condemned the army's presence in FATA. The forum consisted mostly of lawyers from FATA and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami who said that peace in FATA could not be restored till the complete withdrawal of the army from the area. They said that if the NWFP governor was serious in bringing peace to the troubled tribal areas, he should make backing out the army from the tribal belt his priority. |