There is a conspiracy being hatched to turn Pakistan into a secular state, Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said at the first day of Takmeel-i-Pakistan conference at Minar-i-Pakistan on Thursday. “That is rubbish because Pakistan was created with the slogan Pakistan Ka Matlab kia La Ilaha Ilallah.”
Pakistan is the land of Allah and only His law will prevail here, he said. The country faces multiple challenges which can only be overcome through the establishment of a truly Islamic state, he said.
“The country you live in today is not the one Quaid-i-Azam worked for. We need to put all differences aside and create Quaid’s Pakistan.”
Saeed said this required the nation to be united in its fight against all the state’s enemies including the United States and India. But first, they must reject sectarianism.
Leaders of various religious and political parties and representatives of the Sikh community attended the event.
Hafiz Abdul Ghaffar Ropari said, “We are united under the leadership of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The mujahideen are an atom bomb and I’m warning Modi that we will unleash this bomb over India.”
Ropari said they would organise next year’s convention in Kashmir. “We will snatch their independence away from India’s clutches,” he said.
Pir Syed Haroon Gilani, the caretaker of Hazrat Mian Mir shrine, urged the participants to put aside sectarian differences to make Pakistan a prosperous country.
Hafiz Ibtisam Ilahi Zaheer said there was a growing trend of businesses running on interest basis, alcohol was being sold openly at hotels and prostitution was rampant. “As long as this continues, the rule of Allah cannot be implemented.”
He said the nation would not be fooled by the government’s youth loan schemes anymore.
Zaheer said they needed to start a campaign to impose Allah’s commands in the country.
Abubakar Muawiya, one of the participants who arrived in Minar-i-Pakistan from Muridke on Thursday morning, said that he had arrived in Lahore on the call of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. “We will continue our struggle under his leadership to establish an Islamic state. Pakistan is presently under an evil rule.”
Jamat-i-Islami information secretary Liaqat Baloch said all parties needed to be united under the ideology of Pakistan. He said democracy, the lifeblood of politics, was dependent on this ideology.
Over 3,000 policemen have been deployed at Minto Park to secure the venue. Nearly 60 snipers are on-guard.
The convention will end after Friday prayers today.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2014.
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what the problem with secular pakistan.
A minimum Common Sense is enough to justify whether the person is right or not... These people come and spoil the system. The existing government in Pakistan is framed out of lots of efforts and money. Do you think its that easy to break this down and build new one from the base. Don't get fooled by these talks. India is on path of Development, all the charged, we already feel the enthusiasm in people here to start own company, people are coming up with new Business ideas. It's Great time here seriously. We wish Pakistan also gets free from these religious Extremists and get on to the path of Development.
Another crony of deep state-Plan D!.
Why dont you educate your children. Look at yourself - you are this way bec of lack of edu / jobs ... Please send your younger lot to study and gain some worldly knowledge. The world will be a better place. Stop worrying about K.