Placing banned outfits at big fora & media as ‘peace dove’ wrong: Haideri

By: Salman Alvi

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Allama Tajuddin Haideri, Central Vice-President of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan while addressing the office-bearers and workers of TNFJ Provincial Council Punjab said rooting out terrorism is the most important need of the hour.

He said at present the whole humanity, particularly Pakistan is confronted with one problem or the other, and fear and harassment is rife all around. Every Maktab and its followers who desire peace are upset, disturbed and gloomy, he added. We all are under the obligation to practically struggle to our maximum capacity to stop this menace but the rulers are more duty-bound than all to utilise all their energies for restoration of law and order.

Haideri said President Pervez Musharraf taking most important steps in this regard has not only unveiled terrorists rather have imposed ban on them. Continuation of terrorism despite all out efforts against it is a big question mark. He said Gen. Pervez Musharraf must find out those powers that have sabotaged the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Commenting on the recent government decisions to control terrorism, Allama Haideri said the statement of the Interior Minister about ban on gatherings had created confusion but the Federal Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed has cleared this confusion by saying that ban has only been imposed on gatherings organised by banned organisations and all religious and political activities otherwise would continue as usual.

He made it clear that imposing ban on all gatherings is tantamount to encroaching upon the basic rights that is not allowed by any law and constitution in the world. The poor are being victimised owing to crackdown on banned organisations because on many places innocent people are being arrested in the garb of workers of the banned organisations while people belonging to banned groups are being presented at big fora and TV channels as champions of peace, that is tantamount to “judge himself is the murderer”.

The TNFJ Vice-President said the dream of restoring peace could not come true unless the government puts her hand on the real workers and big crocodiles of the banned groups. He said we still stick to our 20-year-old stand that there is no Maktabi or Maslaki conflict in Pakistan and today the whole world is accepting this point of view that terrorism is the mischievous activity of our perpetual and combined enemy.

He said Sunni-Shia are brothers of each other who created Pakistan jointly and will defend it jointly also by thwarting every conspiracy and mischief of the enemy, and would not allow any harm to be caused to the honour and dignity of the motherland.

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