Jamaat-e-Islami will hold "National Leaders' Conference" in Islamabad on September 4 to discuss the country's socio-political situation. JI has already extended invitations to former presidents, politicians, retired judges and military personnel, clerics, newspaper editors, scholars, labour leaders and students.JI Deputy Secretary General Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha, MNA told reporters that issues pertaining to the country's solidarity, sanctity of the constitution, supremacy of parliament, crackdown on madrassas, an end to military rule, free and fair elections under an impartial election commissioner and rampant corruption will be the subject for discussion. Piracha said that he had already briefed Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Raja Zafarul Haq and Imran Khan about the agenda for the conference.
Earlier Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal President and JI Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed addressed a meeting of the newly-elected nazims, naib nazims and general councilors. He accused the government of trying to disintegrate the MMA but said the government would be thwarted in its attempt and the religious parties’ alliance would remain intact. Qazi said that parliament had been rendered powerless because of one man’s rule. Qazi said the government had exercised its influence to succeed it candidates in the elections. He said party-less elections pushed the country into chaos resulting in the killing of scores of people. Qazi claimed that the number of people killed in election violence was unprecedented in the country’s history.