LAHORE, Feb 1: Jamaat-e-Islami naib ameer Hafiz Mohammad Idris has said that no question of free, fair and transparent elections arises without first having an independent judiciary and independent election commission in the country. He said present and previous rulers have completed all arrangements of rigging the elections, and all the contesting parties will have no choice but to observe a "Sham-e-Ghariban" on Feb 18, he said while delivering Friday sermon at Mansoorah mosque.

He said any country without an independent judiciary is considered uncivilized and if judiciary is attacked in any part of the world the entire globe is shaken as a result.

He expressed sorrow that the world particularly the champions of democracy and justice in the west kept meaningful quiet when Pakistani judiciary was bulldozed and judges were sacked and arrested in stark violation of the constitution and global norms. He said Washington is backing a worst kind of military dictator in Pakistan for its vested interests in the Muslim world. He alleged that Washington has double standards and a hypocritical attitude for Muslim world, which is reflected in its support to dictators and non represented rulers in Muslim countries. Washington imposes and backed military dictatorships in Muslim countries where elected leadership does not suit its interests, like in Pakistan, he said.

He said enemies agents are imposed on Pakistan as rulers, working for breaking down Islamic values at grass root level and crush Jihad. Pakistani rulers are not only creating a civil war in the country but also destroying socio-economic conditions of the people in order to weaken the country both economically and militarily. He said unless Gen Musharraf is removed from presidency neither positive change could be brought nor elections could be held free, fair and transparent.

 
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