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| Four clerics quit committee on Islamabad mosques |
| 2007-05-10 |
| Four clerics have resigned from a tripartite committee formed by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on the mosques issue, a TV channel reported on Wednesday. The committee, consisting of officials from the CDA, Islamabad district administration and Wafaqul Madaris, was formed on February 15 after the CDA demolished seven mosques in Islamabad, issued demolition notices to 10 others and declared 81 more mosques illegal. In reaction, clerics started protest demonstrations in the federal capital. The Islamabad deputy commissioner heads the committee. Maulana Zahoor Alvi, Maulana Qazi Abdul Rashid, Maulana Sharif Hazarvi and Qari Nazir Faruqui resigned from the committee on Wednesday, alleging that they were not called to a recent committee meeting on key issues. Meanwhile, the channel said that clerics managing the demolished mosques had said that some of the clerics in the committee were employees of the Auqaf Department and hence under the influence of the government. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The problem is the clerics want to BE the government. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-05-10 13:15 |