JI country wide protest against the hanging of elderly JI Bangladesh leader

Lahore: Countrywide protest was staged on Friday to condemn the hanging of elderly Jamaat e islami Bangladesh leader Abdul Qadir Mullah, for so called war crimes.

Protest rallies were held in all major cities including Lahore and Karachi, Multan, Quetta, Peshawar,  while Ghaibana Namaz e Janaza for the deceased was also held at different places. The funeral prayer held at  Multan Road, near Mansoora was led by the  Ameer, JI, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan.  He also expressed his condolences with the members of the deceased’s family.  The Jamaat al Dawa chief, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed led the funeral prayer for the JI leader at Jamia Qadsia I the city.

Ulema and Khatibs,  in their Friday addresses,  condemned the attitude of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Haseena Wajid and termed the so called war tribunal as Kangroo courts whose decisions were tantamount to the murder of justice.

Syed Munawar Hasan, in his address at Mansoora mosque, said that for the last three years, there was rule of tyranny and injustice in Bangladesh and he elements showing their loyalty to Pakistan were being victimized.  He said the JIP had been pressing upon the Pakistan government that the Bangladesh government be made to abide by the Bhutto-Mujib pact under which Pakistan had recognized Bangladesh , and in  case, the BG government did not agree to that, Pakistan should approach the International Court of Justice.  However, he said, it was unfortunate that the authorities in Islamabad remained totally indifferent  and the people who offered their lives while fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Pakistan armed forces and were being victimized for the last forty two years for their loyalty to Pakistan and for opposing India’s supremacy, but the authorities in Islamabad remained unmoved. He said It was shameful that the Pakistan government described the conviction of Abdul Qadir as an internal issue of Bangladesh. He said on the other hand, the Bangladesh government was still leveling serious allegation against the Pakistan army but the Pakistan government was not ready to raise a voice against that also.

Syed Munawar Hasan said it was unfortunate that thousand of the retired army men who were a witness to the sacrifices of the JI Bangladesh leaders for the country and they should have prevailed upon the government to play its role for the safety of the pro- Pakistan elements but there was no voice raised from any quarter. He said some that JI leaders in Bangladesh including Prof. Ghulam Azam, Maulana Mutiur Rehman Nizami, and Maulana Saeedi, were also behind the bars while hundreds of JI  workers had been killed.

Syed Munawar Hasan, said the JI wont make any request to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in regard to the martyrs of Bangladesh  but he said, it seemed that the Prime minister was also least concerned with the affairs of Pakistan due to which the problems of the people here were also multiplying .

Addressing the rally, JI Punjab chief, Dr. Syed Waseem Akhtar, said the US policy makers, Indian Hindus and the Zionists were happy over the hanging of Abdul Qadir Mullah, and considered it as tgheir success.  However, he said,  the martyrdoms had always raised the morale of the Muslims, and the history of the Islamic movements was full of that.

JI Foreign Affairs chief, Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, in his address, said that Turkish Prime minister Tayyeb Ordagan, had rang up Bangladesh Premier Haseena Wajid a few hours before the execution of Abdul Qadir Mullah, and warned her of the severe reaction to the hanging of the JI eader. He said it was unfortunate that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not even think of contacting his BD counter part in this regard, when the JI leader was being executed for his loyalty to this country.