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Published 03 Nov, 2001 12:00am

CHARSADDA: Qazi castigates govt policy

CHARSADDA, Nov 2: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad has held out a warning that the present rulers of Pakistan would soon face the wrath of Allah as they have preferred to go with kufr instead of Islam for the sake of a few dollars in the present war of America and its allies against Afghanistan.

He was delivering Friday sermon in the Haji Mohammad Amin Mosque at Mujahidabad, Umerzai, where he along with Prof Ibrahim and Siraj-ul-Haq had come to offer Fateha for Mohammad Ishaq, the grandson of Haji Mohammad Amin, who was killed in Afghanistan a few days back.

The Qazi lauded Mohammad Ishaq for his supreme sacrifice for the sake of Islam and added that Islam today needed youths like him. The JI chief said the grandfather of Mohammad Ishaq was also a great Mujahid and even today he was remembered as Mujahid-i-Kashmir.

ANTI-US RALLY: A big anti-US rally was held at the Farooq-i-Azam Square here after Friday prayers.

The rally. organized by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, was addressed, among others, by Maulana Amir Nawaz Khan, former JUI MNA from Lakki Marwat; Maulana Gauhar Shah, provincial Naib Amir, JUI; Maulana Mohammad Idrees, district Amir, JUI; and Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq, Amir, JUI, Mohamand Agency. They warned the government that if it did not change its anti-Taliban and pro-America policy they ( JUI leaders) would give a call for waging Jihad against it.

They said it was the duty of the government to side with Muslim brethren of Afghanis-tan, but lamented that it was supporting the forces of kufr.

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