[Dawn] The 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) would not allow resumption of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
supplies through Pakistain even if the USA tendered an apology over attack on Salala checkpost, said Prof Ibrahim, the provincial chief of the party.
Addressing a rally at Chakdara Bazaar on Sunday, he criticised the rulers for seeking money from the US and other western countries.
More than 300 JI activists attended the rally, which was also addressed by Maulana Asadullah, Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, Sultanat Yar, Advocate Rahimullah, Dr Bashir Ahmad, Noorul Haq and others.
"The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
government is promoting vulgarity and obscenity in the name of so-called cultural shows and musical concerts," alleged Prof Ibrahim.
He said that government wanted to get money from the US in return of reopening NATO supply route. He termed it a shameful act. He said that NATO supply route should not be reopened even if the US tendered apology over killing of Pak soldiers at Salala last year.
The JI leader said that the Supreme Court of Pakistain and its judges were being targeted under a conspiracy. He said that rulers, both at centre and provinces, were involved in corruption cases.
"That is why they (rulers) want to defame and pressurise the judiciary," Prof Ibrahim said, adding that JI workers would support judiciary.
Other speakers accused the government of devising anti-people policies. They said that uncontrolled corruption was destroying foundations of the state.
The participants of the rally marched on Chakdara-Timergara Road and gathered outside Chakdara Press Club. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the government and demanded end to unscheduled power outage, conspiracies against judiciary and
corruption.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for...
a local jirga of Adenzai on Sunday settled an old blood feud between two families of Kiteyari village.
The jirga, consisting of Dr Bashir Ahmad, Sultanat Yar, Rahimullah and Madad Khan of Jamaat-e-Islami and Hussain Shah Yousafzai of ANP, initiated efforts to resolve dispute between the families of Hayat Khan and Haji Fazal Mabood.
The members of the two families on Sunday embraced each other during a ceremony held at the hujra of Hayat Khan.
JI provincial chief Prof Ibrahim was chief guest while hundreds of local elders and notables were present on the occasion.