Is Jamaat-e-Islami the Establishment’s B-Team?

Introduction

The answer, in the words of Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman, to the objection raised by political opponents and certain elements that "Jamaat-e-Islami is the Establishment's B team."

"Look, the thing you people say, when you put this title, what it means is that you are saying that the public should say this about you. This is called name-calling.Establishment's A team, A-plus team, B team, there are many journalists also included in this who keep creating all these narratives, and there are also those people included who are afraid of Jamaat-e-Islami, that it will stop corruption, it will not eat, nor will it let anyone else eat. There are also those people included who have had a lot of fun in all these governments. It's not like this system became bad just like that. So they enjoy themselves by putting this allegation on us.

If there is any team of the Establishment, then its mayor, having won, loses; its won seats are lost, that is the B team, and those who, after losing 5,000 polling stations, take 15 seats, you don't say anything about them. You tell them they have a mandate. So you should also think about this, people like you should also think about this. So MQM has completely lost.

Look, this is exactly the problem with you people. Look at all my speeches. I will say as much as there is to say. I cannot abuse. My problem is that I cannot abuse anyone. The issue is that you will never tell this about PTI, how its emergence happened. You will not tell that Bhutto used to call Ayub Khan Daddy, broke the country together with Yahya Khan, did not accept the 77 mandate, martial law was imposed. During Benazir Sahiba's time, they came back into power through an NRO with Musharraf. It is a part of history.

You say that he is in the A-plus team. You say that the Pakistan Peoples Party is the Establishment's A-plus team. Along with it is the PML-N. PTI came forward with the support of the Establishment. There is no need even to say this about MQM. It simply is. You don't say this. You are asking me a question, whose path the Establishment is blocking. Student union elections, which are not happening in the country at this time, why are they not happening?

Who launched MQM against Jamaat-e-Islami?

You create the perception and then it becomes one, right? State the facts. This is what I am saying.

You yourself will become the opponent while asking questions. Then the opponents will be you yourself, right? State the facts. The job of journalism is to state facts, to talk about facts. Talk about perception, say that this is the perception of this many people, okay? Then the matter makes sense. So this question has been asked too much.

Look, if Jamaat-e-Islami does not have even a single seat and governments have been formed on Form 47, then who is the Establishment's team?

Tell me, say that you are anti-Establishment, that is why you do not have a seat. Or that, at the very least, you are not in favor of the Establishment's authority.

Who voted against military courts? Jamaat-e-Islami did.

All these parties together had made military courts. You say this, you never questioned them.

You did not question why everyone together voted for Bajwa, for the extension.

Who gave General Bajwa the extension? First of all, General Bajwa's extension happened during PTI's time, absolutely it happened. PPP was included, PML-N was there, MQM was there, etc., etc. Only Jamaat-e-Islami was not there. In the military courts, only Jamaat-e-Islami did not vote. Okay.

At that time, I returned my seat, saying I don't want it anymore. So what are all these things? But I will never do this, that when war breaks out, when war starts with India, I start speaking against the army. I will never do this. I will speak against India. People want that in such things, people temporarily, in cult politics, go against the interests of the country. When Pakistan is attacked, I will talk about uniting the entire nation.

When it is the issue of Palestine, I will go even to that Prime Minister of Form 47, I will go to Bilawal, I will go to PTI, and I went and I had the government hold an All-Parties Conference. If you call this politics wrong, then brother, your politics is yours. The way parties apparently take stands, sometimes the way they compromise from the inside, we all know.