ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The TNFJ Political Cell has announced that the people belonging to Maktab-e-Tashayyo should use their right to vote as the Grade-I citizens of Pakistan.

This was stated by Chairman Zulfiqar Ali Raja while addressing a Press conference at Press Club Rawalpindi-Islamabad Camp Office along with Additional Secretary General of Tehreek and Prof. Ghulam Abbas Haideri, Secretary General of the Political Cell here on Thursday. Syed Qamar Haider Zaidi Central Spokesman of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya Pakistan and Allama Basharat Hussaini Imami District President Islamabad were also present on the occasion.

Zulfiqar Ali Raja explaining the Election Policy said that the Ahl-e-Tashayyo should vote to those candidates and parties who are laced with commitment of restoration of justice and fair-play and rooting out oppression and brutality; are protectors and supporters of Musawwar-e-Pakistan, Founder of Pakistan and the Nazria-e-Asaasi; are symbols of Federation and guarantors of the rights of all the provinces; avoid biases, are protectors of the rights of all schools of thought including the minorities, and are followers of the Constitution and the Legislation; and are used to support the oppressed and have-nots and practically express their hatred against oppression and brutality.

Answering a question, he said those personalities who have given commitment to the candidates of National and Provincial Assemblies in the personal are collective capacity, should fulfil their promises. Giving a reference of an historic occasion about fulfilment of commitment, he said when two persons reached before the Holy Prophet (SAAW) after being released by Kuffar-e-Makkah and sought permission for jehad, the Holy Prophet (SAAW) asked did you make any promise with Kuffar? They said we were released on the condition not to participate in jehad with you. On this, the Holy Prophet (SAAW) said you cannot participate in jehad then. They said this commitment was with Kuffar but the Holy Prophet (SAAW) said that it is necessary to keep the promise.

When asked which party fulfils the qualities stated by the TNFJ’s policy, Syed Shujaat Bokhari said at present the people are most sensible than politicians and they know better what to do. He made it clear that people who opposed Pakistan Ideology are not included in them but those people should be voted who are oppressed and support the oppressed, while identifying such parties and candidates is the job of the people. To another question, he said TNFJ Political Cell has always given an honourable policy on the occasion of all elections in the past and these policies always remained successful. Those who participate in election on Maktabi basis would feel embarrassed on the policy being given during these elections, he added. He said we desire to see Pakistan Ideology reign supreme.

Zulfiqar Ali Raja said that survival, development, integrity, and political stability are commensurate with the national unity of any State. Our religion is Islam and it has showered our State with golden principles for political stability, unity and brotherhood, he said adding that mutual consultation and democracy have been termed most important for one of these elements i.e. political stability of the country on which Surah-e-Shoora also stands witness. He said the objective of democracy is to run the State affairs in line with the religion and Shariah, brining stability to the motherland, and finding such a viable solution for internal and external issues in which the country, its people and the basic ideology of the country remain intact and all internal and external conspiracies and mischief could be tackled with amicably.

The TNFJ Political Cell chief said that at present we are surrounded by the international colonial powers from all around because they are afraid of Islam and, therefore, using all tactics to defame Muslims by giving hateful names to them. The South Asia region has been given independence but the enemy could not digest creation of Pakistan, therefore, they had left their inheritors behind in the shape different groups that had always been a biggest hurdle in way of Pakistan’s consolidation, development and stability, he added. These are the people, he said, who always considered religion and Shariat as the personal matter of the individual despite being known that all world systems have lost their attraction and only Islam is blessed with the singular honour of being capable of resolving all problems. On this basis, a particular group not only opposed the Pakistan Movement openly rather they declared the struggle to achieve it as ‘Kufr’ but as Pakistan had to come into existence, it was created and by the Grace of God is an atomic power now, he added.

Zulfiqar Ali Raja said that we have always considered politics as subservient to religion and Shariat and it is so because Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya is purely a religious organisation and as per a saying of Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, electoral politics on the basis of Maktab and sect is poisonous for the nation and the country and, moreover, no particular Maktab or Maslak but Islam is the official religion of the motherland. Therefore, he added, it is utmost important that one should not participate in electoral politics in the name of Maktab. If this ‘Amanat’ is encroached upon in any way then the leadership of the nation and the country could land into wrong hands, therefore, he added, fulfilling their national responsibilities they should vote in the February 18, 2008 general elections, along with other citizens of the country.