LAHORE, Nov 4: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer and MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has prayed to the Almighty Allah to accept his life, belongings and children as a sacrifice to follow His right path and enforce His system in the country.

Qazi made this prayer while delivering the concluding address on Sunday, the last day of the 3-day members convention at Shamki Bhattian, 24 kms from Lahore on Multan road.

Qazi warned that as long as those who breached the constitution are not punished with death as per constitution, the practice of breaching the constitution will continue and organized efforts and sacrifices are needed to stop this trend. He said we are not talking about violating the constitution but protecting it from the adventurers and military generals who violate it on gunpoint to usurp power and people's rights.

Qazi announced to launch protests against the imposition of emergency in the country by Gen Musharraf and directed the JI workers to hold demonstrations at district and tehsil headquarters. He asked the party workers to lead the demonstrations and they should remove this complain in future that JI workers would not come out on streets.

JI Naib ameers Prof Ghafoor and Liaqat Baloch, Deputy secretary general Farid Paracha and others also spoke on the final day.

Qazi Hussain Ahmad said Gen Musharraf is fighting a war of US interests against his own nation, using Pakistan army and national resources for killing Pakistani people. The aim of this war is to promote American, European and Indian culture in the country in the name of 'Enlightened Moderation.' He expressed sorrow that people of Pakistan are still enslaved by the military and civil establishment which are resisting against giving them freedom. Even Gen Pervez Musharraf while addressing Western countries and America in English language during his speech, expressed his inability to establish democracy in the country like the west and allow people their fundamental rights like in the west. He said Gen Musharraf has clearly depicted that we are still mentally enslaved by the west and can put our people in jails without reasons whenever required.

Qazi said a prisoner in a torture center near Islamabad has told him that he was in Guantanamo bay before coming there and that the prisoners there prayed that they were better off in Guantanamo bay since the Americans treated them better than their Pakistani counterparts. Qazi said Gen Musharraf is a terrorist himself who has massacred innocent children, women and people mercilessly in Jamia Hafsa, Bajaur, Waziristan, Swat and other tribal areas. He said Gen Musharraf has now massacred the judiciary by imposing martial law in the name of emergency rule. Qazi said emergency rule do not require removal of chief justice nor the suspension of fundamental rights. He said struggling to achieve liberation from Gen Musharraf is obligatory like liberation from any infidel or foreign occupant. He asked the JI workers to come out on streets against this system of cruelty with the spirit of martyrdom like other Muslim freedom fighters who are running the liberation struggles in Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq under extremely difficult circumstances. He said I declare the launching of movement against this system of oppression from today and asked the JI workers to offer Qunut-e-Nazla prayers along with the Fajr prayers everyday, adding that he would make this announcement from the MMA platform also.

Qazi Hussain Ahmad said we pay glowing tributes to Chief Justice Ifrikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other judges who refused to take oath under PCO, while we curse Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and those who took oath under PCO. At this all the participants raised loud slogans of "Curse upon them, Curse upon them", (Laanat, Laanat). Qazi also paid tributes to the Supreme Court to declare null and void the imposition of emergency soon after its imposition and restore chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. Qazi said those judges who took oath under PCO have no legal and constitutional status. He said there shouldn't be two chief justices in one country and we don't acknowledge justice Abdul Hameed Dogar as chief justice, adding that justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is still the chief justice of Pakistan.     
                                          
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