Police fired couple of teargas shells but protesters stood defiant.
ISLAMABAD: The participants of Majlis Tahaffuz Khatam-e-Nabuwat (SAW) march picketed in front of the Supreme Court on Monday after pushing back the local police and gave the apex court Sept 07 deadline to review its verdict in Mubarak Sani case.
Led by JUIF leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Qazi Abdur Rashid, Mian Muhammad Aslam (Jamaat-e-Islami) and Ajmal Baloch, the protesters after a scuffle with the police reached the Supreme Court building. The police fired a couple of teargas shells but the protesters stood defiant.
However, on appeal of the march organisers, they returned to the ‘D Chowk’ where they dispersed peacefully after listening to the leaders’ speeches.Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri warned that if the apex court did not review its decision allowing Ahmadis to preach their faith even within the boundaries of their worship places, then there would be no peace in Islamabad. “A breach of Constitution has been committed by allowing Qadianis to preach their faith,” he said.
Haideri asked the chief justice that he should question Qadianis whether they considered themselves as minorities. “We will stage a sit-in in front of Supreme Court building if it did not review its verdict,” he warned.
JI Naib Ameer Mian Muhammad Aslam alleged the verdict was against the Constitution creating unrest among the faithful across the country.He said Qadianis regardless of their affiliation to Lahori, Ahmadi or any other group were not Muslims and the same had been decided once and for all by the Parliament.
“Now the issues decided by the Parliament are being raised intentionally time and again which was not acceptable,” he said. Qazi Abdul Rashid also maintained that the issue pertained to the faith of Muslims and there could be no compromise on it. He said the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) had also rejected various clauses of the Supreme Court decision and called upon the court to review its decision.
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