JUI condemns attacks on seminary students

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam warns that it will organise protests if the government fails to take action.

SUKKUR:

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) has condemned the attack on seminary students  in Karachi and has warned that it will organise protests if the government fails to take action.

At a press conference on Saturday, JUI Sindh chapter secretary-general Dr Khalid Mehmood accused the government of condemning selective acts of violence. “The government declared Malala as its daughter and the UN observed Malala Day  but where are these people when students of seminaries in Karachi are gunned down?” he asked, referring to the killing of six students of Jamia Arabia Ashanul Uloom.

Preparing for general elections

The JUI has prepared a plan of action for the upcoming general elections and it plans to meet all the parties that are in opposition to the Pakistan Peoples’ Party, said Dr Soomro. “We will meet Pir Pagaro and then the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, National Peoples Party and Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto).”

He also said that his party is against the new local government law in Sindh and demanded that the government withdraw it immediately.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2012.