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LAHORE, Feb 22: Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Syed
Munawar Hasan has said that the first task of new assembly and its
leaderships is to force Gen Musharraf to resign from his illegal
presidency and restore all the sacked judges including chief justice
Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhri.
He was delivering Friday sermon at Mansoorah mosque, says a press
release by JI media cell. Munawar Hasan said the recent elections
were a referendum against Gen Musharraf and masses have rejected his
policies of extremism, implementing Western agenda, and anti-Muslim
domestic and foreign policies. He said Gen Musharraf visited many
cities and begged the people for voting for his political chums but
masses rejected them with a shameful refusal. Now Musharraf has only
one choice, and that is to resign to save his honorably otherwise
people will throw him out of power, he said.
He said JI boycotted elections on principled stance and we still
demand that all the sacked judges including Chief Justice Iftikhar
Mohammad Chaudhri should be restored and constitution should be
restored to the position of Oct 12, 99. Munawar also urged upon the
parties in the parliament that they must forge unity and
collaboration among them so as to restore the supremacy of the
parliament and rid the nation of an individual's dictatorship. He
said the recent elections were rigged pre-polled, while several
allies of Musharraf regime rigged them on the polling day as well
wherever they found a chance to do that. He cited examples of MQM
candidates bagging over 150,000 or 175,000 votes, saying Karachi and
Hyderabad again suffered from worst rigging since such a large
number of votes were impossible could not be polled in one day
specially when voters were nowhere to be seen on the polling
stations.
He said JI will wait and see if the new government fulfilled all its
electoral promises, and if they avoided to restore judges and
constitution then APDM will use the national reawakening to launch a
movement against the rulers. He said JI welcomes the lawyers long
march of March 9 towards Islamabad, said it is necessary to prevent
the new rulers from ignoring the core issues.
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