[Dawn] 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...
central chief
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 Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain 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...
has said that Haqqani network has no presence in Pakistain.
"It is based in Afghanistan and the US should encounter it there," he said.
Addressing a public gathering here on Sunday, the JI chief asked the authorities to stop military operation in tribal areas as innocent citizens were being killed in the action.
JI central deputy chief Sirajul Haq, provincial deputy chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, district chief Maulana Asadullah, Islami Jamaat Tulba central chief Zubair Safdar, Jamaat Tulba Arabia chief Mahmood Bashir, Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, Muzafar Syed, Saeed Gul, Izazul Afkari, Syed Sultanat Yar and Maulana Mohammad Ismail also spoke on the occasion.
The JI chief said that more than 350 drone strikes had been carried out so far in the tribal areas. Innocent citizens were killed in those attacks, he added.
Mr Hassan said that the US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces were facing a historical defeat. Hatred against America, he said, was spreading in the entire world. "That is why now some elements in America and the west are making sacrilegious films and cartoons to defame Mohammedans," he said.
He asked the authorities to immediately halt military operation in the tribal areas and settled districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
as it was not a solution to militancy.
The JI chief said that observing holiday and holding Seerat Conference at Islamabad by the government were fruitless as the world did not take any notice of the same. He said that government should expel the US ambassador from Pakistain.
Mr Hassan said that people wanted change in the country. He said that JI would promote Islamic culture through ballot instead of bullet.
Ruling out revival of Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal, the JI chief alleged that all political parties were involved in corruption and lawlessness.
The JUI-F, he said, had been part of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
government for the last four and a half years but the situation there had been deteriorating with each passing day.
Addressing the gathering, Sirajul Haq demanded of the government to close the American embassy until the anti-Islam film was banned in Europe and America. He said that Organisation of the Islamic Conference should pressurise the UN to frame laws for imposing ban on blasphemous contents.
Criticising the ruling Awami National Party, Mr Haq alleged that blood was being shed since it had come into power. He said that lawlessness, price hike, selling of national institutions and corruption destroyed the country.
Mr Haq said that police potted innocent citizens in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
to protect the US consulate and cinema houses. "Burning a cinema is a crime but killing a human is not a crime in the eyes of our rulers," he said.