HYDERABAD: The Sunni Tehrik activists vented their ire over the desecration of shrines of saints and holy men in Swat and other parts of the NWFP through protests and demonstrations all over Sindh on Friday.
Rejecting the enforcement of Nizam-i-Adl Regulation by Taliban in the NWFP through force and gun, they reminded the so-called patriots of religion that Islam was enforced through love and forgiveness, and not terror. Islam is a religion of tolerance and piety and renounces oppression of all kinds.
Garbed in shrouds, Sindh convener Maulana Noor Ahmed and scores of activists condemned the sacrilege of shrines and killing of Pir Sharifullah Mujjadidi in Swat and Ajmal Darbari in Mirpurkhas. They demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.
Maulana Ahmed was aghast as to how blood-thirsty law-breakers could guarantee peace and justice and why without proper understanding of the Nizam-i-Adl regulation the Parliament endorsed it and the government okayed this anti-people system.
He said that the government had given a license to lawlessness and one feels ashamed to call it a justice system.
How come people unaware of the essence of Shari at can enforce it through gun and powder and which religion allows killing followers of sects, other than theirs. It’s disgusting to see the Taliban indulging into bombing and rocket attacking places, sacred to followers of other sects – Islam is against bigotry, he said.
Acts of the Taliban are apt to defame Islam and may stamp its followers as ‘terrorists’, he said.
In Nawabshah, the Sunni Tehrik (ST) activists demonstrated outside the press club on Friday in protest against the demolition and occupation of shrines in Swat and other parts of the NWFP.
Protesters carrying placards raised slogans against the wave of Talibanisation.
ST leaders Sikandar Ali Qadri, Abdul Raheem Qadri and others said that the Taliban were demolishing and occupying the shrines of Sufi saints and also killing Ulema in Swat and other areas of Malakand.
They said that they do not recognize and accept the so-called Shariat of Taliban and would not allow its implementation in the country. They said that the Taliban were spreading their tentacles to the rest of the country, moreover after the promulgation of Nizam-i-Adl Regulation in Malakand division of the NWFP by the government.
They criticised the government for exposing its weakness by agreeing to Taliban’s terms and conditions but vowed that people would resist any illegal action.
Meanwhile, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Interior Sindh chapter also condemned the promulgation of Nizam-i-Adal Regulation by the government.
Siraj Rajput, member MQM’s Interior Sindh Organising Committee, speaking to party workers at different places emphatically refused to let Talibanisation take its roots in Sindh.
The Taliban cannot impose their version of Islamic laws or so-called Shari at on gun-point or through force, he said.
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