Siraj warns rulers against amending Constitution

LAHORE

Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has warned the government against amending Islamic articles of the Constitution, saying the nation is united and the state is functioning perfectly under the Constitution but if the Constitution is made controversial, the nation will never become united and unanimous on any constitution again. 

The rulers only act upon those articles of the Constitution which refer to their own powers but never care for those calling for the rights of the masses, he alleged while addressing the concluding session of a two-day training workshop at Mansoora on Monday. 

He said the Constitution made rulers duty bound for eradicating interest based economy and corruption, and enable the masses to live their lives according to Quran and Sunnah.  Siraj alleged that the rulers were harassing Ulema and religious scholars in seminaries only to please the US and the West.

He alleged that thousands of Ulema and teachers of seminaries were arrested and tortured without any crime. He said a secular lobby left no chance of vilifying Islam and Ulema and their vicious campaign reached to the extent that the serving officer of Indian army working for RAW was being linked with seminaries. 

He reminded that Article 31 of the Constitution held bound the rulers to enforce and promote the teachings of Quran and Sunnah in the country to enable people lead their lives according to Islam. But the rulers were removing Islamic chapters from the syllabi and replacing it with western culture to secularise the country to please the foreign masters, he alleged. 

He alleged that the rulers were dividing the nation on the basis of language and culture. Meanwhile, PTI vice president, Punjab Doctors Wing, Dr Zubair Qadir, announced joining the Jamaat e Islami, at a meeting with Senator Sirajul Haq at Mansoora. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Zubair Qadir said honest and sincere leadership of JI alone could steer the country out of the prevailing crisis. 

grieved: Chairman Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Siddiq-ul-Farooq has condemned the deadly blast of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore which took over 70 innocent lives and left over 300 inured.

According to a press release issued on Monday, the chairman said he was much grieved for those families who lost their loved ones in the brutal act of terrorism. He also expressed his sympathies with the families of injured.

Orators: Orators from top 52 educational institutions of the country, while addressing the “21st GCU Parliamentary Style Debates 2016” on Monday, strongly condemned the terror attack at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park saying the blood of the innocent children would ultimately drown the perpetrators of violence and terror.  

The orators also observed a one-minute silence at the beginning of the final rounds of the debates to show solidarity with the families of the martyrs and injured.  

The four-day debating contest was organised by Government College University Debating Society (GCUDS). The English and Urdu topics in the finals on Monday were “This House would remove all physical manifestations of racists' legacy in universities and public spaces” and “This House believes that formation of student unions would result in political maturity of students.”