LAHORE: Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan, Liaqat Baloch, said that the enforcement of the country’s constitution in totality was tantamount to the enforcement of the Shariah. He was speaking at a seminar on the enforcement of the Shariah, its past, present and future, at the Ulema Academy Monday evening.
The JI Secretary General said that the 1973 constitution envisaged an Islamic ideological, welfare state. However, he said that for the last seventy years, the powerful secular lobby had been tried to run the country on the alien ideology. This had not only damaged the crustal clear face of Islam but also divided the nation on ethnic, group, regional, sectarian, etc grounds. He said that enforcement of the Shariah demanded true enforcement of the Objectives Resolution adopted by the first constituent assembly of the country and the elders of the Pakistan Movement.
Liaqat Baloch said that martial law and supra constitutional actions could not keep the country united. He said that regular elections, continued political process and positive attitude alone could guarantee national unity and cohesion.
He said that the Punjab was an important and big province and its religious circles, mosques, the mashaikh and spiritual leadership had to play an active role failing which the secular elements would destroy the state.
Commenting on the issue of military courts, Liaqat Baloch said that the political, democratic, social and military leadership should reach a consensus that the civil judicial system must be strengthened and the option of military courts should be given up.
