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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...
leader Senator Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
on Sunday called for strict accountability of the government functionaries responsible for irregularities in the election 2013 in the light of the latest inquiry commission's report.
He was addressing a seminar -- held in memory of former Jamaat leader Mian Tufail Muhammad on the occasion of his sixth death anniversary. Siraj said that irregularities had been committed by the functionaries appointed by the government and they must be taken to task for that.
He suggested to the government to hold an all parties' conference (APC) to discuss the inquiry report and for introducing electoral reforms so that the elections in future could be free from such irregularities, fair and transparent. Without reference, he said that the constitution had not been implemented even for a single day and as the rulers themselves were the biggest hurdle in this way.
-- Code of ethics for media, law against obscenity --
He also said that he had met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
in the Masjid-e-Nabvi during the month of Ramazan and requested him to order abolition of interest-based economic system, stop obscenity through the media and framing a code of ethics for the media and for ending the proxy war in order to restore peace.
-- Victimization of Jamaat's Bangladesh leaders --
He said that he had also met Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in
goodjihadis and
badjihadis as a matter of national policy...
and called upon the government to raise voice on the victimization of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh leaders by the government of
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
Wajed. He also said that it was incumbent upon the government to support Kashmiris' struggle for independence. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
he said that rulers had been sabotaging the freedom movement of Kashmiris. Former law minister SM Zafar was among the participants.