PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that efforts were underway to sign another national reconciliation ordinance (NRO) in Karachi.

Addressing graduation ceremony of Ulema at the party provincial secretariat here on Monday, he said that killers were roaming free and holding press conferences in Karachi.

Around 1,500 Ulema attended the ceremony and received certif-icates.

“Drama is orchestrated to sign another NRO in Karachi,” he said and alleged that former president Gen Pervez Musharraf had pardoned those people who were involved in the killing of thousands of innocent people.

He said that criminals, robbers and terrorists were set free when they supported Musharraf government.

He said that Pakistan was heading towards dictatorship.

Condemning execution of Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh leader Mir Quesam Ali, Sirajul Haq said that his party would organise a rally in Islamabad on September 8 to lodge protests against execution of those leaders who opposed division of Pakistan in 1971.

He said that senior leaders of JI including Ali Ahsan Mujahid, Abdul Qadir Mullah and Mateeur Rehman were executed because they were not in favour of creation of Bangladesh.

“Here rulers accommodate those elements who raised slogan of ‘Down with Pakistan’ in the name of national reconciliation while Bangladeshi government is executing people who chant slogan of ‘Long Live Pakistan’,” he said.

The JI leader demanded that government should treat three million students of seminaries like students of public sector colleges and universities. He said students of seminaries were being deprived of their due rights.

He said that that the government had ignored internally displaced people of Fata who had been living a miserable life outside their homes.

He said that the government was following dictation of International Monetary Fund and other money lending agencies.

He urged the rulers to pay attention to the rehabilitation of IDPs.

Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2016