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LAHORE, Jan 17: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer and MMA
president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has stressed that there is no
justification of participating in any elections without having
independent judiciary and in the presence of Gen Musharraf.
Jamaat-e-Islami will make fruitful the mass movement of electoral
boycott and soon all the opposition parties will have to get united,
he said while delivering concluding address at the closing session
of the meeting of JI Shoora here at Mansoorah on Thursday.
Qazi praised the recent statements of COAS and said he (COAS) began
moving in right direction by asking the army to dissociate itself
from politics, which is quite different from the Musharraf group.
Qazi said COAS determined the correct direction for the armed forces
under the circumstances when our twenty five thousand troops are
helpless in Swat while Balochistan is also in serious dangers
despite military operation.
Qazi said except a small ruling group the entire opposition has
serious reservations against the existing judiciary, caretaker
governments and chief election commissioner. He said according to
traditions of democratic societies the chief election commissioner
should have resigned voluntarily after having so strong a criticism
and doubts upon his personality, but in Pakistan a class of people
cling to the public offices like leeches. He urged upon the
opposition parties to chalk out collective strategy according to
their principled stance. He expressed strong hopes of forging unity
among whole opposition since the expectations which some people had
from the rulers are now dying down.
Qazi urged upon the JI office bearers and Shoora members to convert
the principled stance of election boycott into a forceful mass
movement with the help of JI's organizational set up. He said the
country will usher into a new democratic era by taking a firm
position on principled stance and breaking the shackles of doctrine
of necessity and ground realities.
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