21st amendment would intensify lawlessness :Siraj ul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said that the rulers had undermined  the national unity against terrorism and were considering the 21^st amendment as the panacea although it had given a serious blow to national unity and cohesion.

Addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that the split caused in the national because of the fresh amendment would intensify lawlessness instead of bringing it to an end.

Sirajul Haq said that during the last 68 years, the rulers had not framed even a single law for the enforcement of the Shariah but they were enacting laws against religion under the pressure of thee secular forces.

The JI chief said the elected government thought that the military courts were the solution of all ills. He said, if it was so, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should explain why these courts would be functioning only for a period of two years only.

He said that the civil courts, in the discharge of their duties, had announced death sentence to about eight thousand  criminals but the rulers had stopped executions under the pressure of the US and European Union due to which terrorism had increased.

After the Juma prayer, the JI chief led the Namaz e Istisqa praying for rain due to the prolonged drought condition hitting the country.

Later, talking to the media, the JI chief counseled the government to review the 21s amendment and do more home work on it in order to take all others in confidence. He said if the government had honest intentions and had not acted in haste for the creation of military courts, the consensus achieved after the Pesh awar tragedy could have been further strengthened.

He said unfortunately, even after the Peshawar tragedy, the government had not corrected its  approach and was taking action against the madrissahs and the mosques to please their western masters. He said, whoever had counseled the Prime minister to add the words mosques and madrissahs in the 21s amendment, was not his well-wisher as he had misguided the Prime Minister and pitted him against the three million madrissah students and their families.

“ Those considering Islam as the root cause of lawlessness should tell the nation if they had allowed Islam to enter the assemblies even for a single day,” he asked. He said the government had opened new gates of terrorism. He wondered if an individual not studying at a madrissah committed an act of terrorism, would that be justified. Sirajul Haq said that there was no precedent of military courts all over the developed world.

He said the present rulers had been in power for three times even before but instead of providing any relief to the masses, they had added to the miseries of the people. The rulers were still disobeying the commands of Allah and that was the main reason of the problems and the difficulties facing the nation and the country. However, he said, that instead of turning to Allah and His Prophet( SAW) for forgiveness, the rulers were bracketing Islam with terrorism only to advance the agenda of the colonial powers.

Meanwhile,The Central Shoora of the Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan has expressed deep grief and anguish over the terrorist attack at the Army Public School, Peshawar last month resulting in the brutal murder of 152 students and teachers, and termed it as inhuman, un-Islamic and the worst form of terrorism.

A resolution unanimously adopted by the Shoora on the opening session on Thursday with the JI Ameer, Sirajul Haq in the chair, said that the human history did not provide any precedent wherein innocent children and their teachers were targeted in such manner, and said those perpetrating such a heinous crime did not deserve to be called human, let alone Muslims.

The resolution said that the Peshawar tragedy had been an eye opener and had shaken the nation and the rulers. It said that unfortunately, the wrong policies and vague measures adopted by the government had been instrumental in increasing terrorism instead of cutting it down as the parliament and the APC’s were ignored.

The Shoora noted that the war that had been started in the region after the US- led NATO invasion  of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 had plunged the Pakistani people into a constant state of anguish  and destruction, and the Peshawar tragedy was a continuation of these tragedies, in fact, another 9/11.

The JI central advisory body expressed full sympathies and solidarity with the families of the  students and teachers martyred in the Peshawar terrorist attack, and prayed that Almighty Allah grant patience and forbearance to them on their great loss.

The Shoora however resolved that the Pakistani nation would foil the evil designs of the terrorists through its unity and all the elements-both local and foreign, involved in these conspiracies would be exposed.

The Shoora appreciated the display of national unity and solidarity by all national leaders for the

residents of Peshawar after the tragedy, and expressed the hope that the government would pick up courage and expose all internal and foreign elements and forces involved in terrorism, take the nation in confidence and adopt undisputed and practical steps for their elimination.

The Shoora said that the nation expected the rulers and the state institutions to adopt practical measures for uprooting the causes of terrorism and hand down deterrent punishment to the perpetrating crimes against humanity.

The Shoora however said that the state was responsible for the security of the life, property and honour of the citizens. It said that the closure of the educational institutions after the terrorist attack at  a Peshawar educational institution was a cause of deep concern. It stressed upon the federal and the provincial governments to provide security to all educational institutions and said it was high time that the nation stood united for giving an effective response to the enemy instead of mudslinging on one another.