Syed Munawar Hassan... The funny-looking Amir of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi,
The Great Apostasizer.As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Bloody Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jama'at-e-Islami Pakistan in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009...
Sunday said that Shah
Mehmood WormtongueQureshi and Qamar Zama Kaira's non-inclusion in the new Federal Cabinet proves that they are not corrupt, so fail to meet Pakistain People's Party standard.
Talking to media men after addressing a tribal jirga here at Mansoora, Syed Munawar Hassan said neither the assassins of Benazir Bhutto will be nabbed nor will Pervez
PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
get even a slightest of punishment during PPP's regime.
He urged the Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to review the role of Army in the war against terrorism.
Earlier, addressing the tribal jirga, he said Pakistain must dissociate itself from war on terror and challenge the drone strikes.