Tanzeemat-e-Ahle Sunnat decides against joining Azadi March  

LAHORE: Madaris Deenia and Tanzeemat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat on Tuesday decided against joining Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam -Fazal (JUI-F) Chief Fazal-ur-Rehman’s Azadi March, ARY News reported.

The decision was announced by Chairman Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Hamid Raza, in a press conference in Lahore, today.

Azadi March is against the national security, we will become part of it, Hamid Raza said.

Last week, Jamia Binoria Aalimiyah chief Mufti Muhammad Naeem had also said that seminaries’ students should not be used for political gains.

Talking to a two-member delegation comprising Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri and Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi, who called on him at his office in Jamia Binoria, Mufti Naeem said that seminaries should not be used for politics.

Speaking on the occasion, he had said that these types of activities will put negative impacts on seminaries and will hurt the image of Madarras in the world.

Mufti Naeem urged the seminaries to restrain their students from participating in the Azadi march.

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Earlier on October 14, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman had failed to enlist the support of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) for his upcoming Azadi March.

The JUI-F chief had telephoned JI leader Liaquat Baloch to discuss the anti-government march and sought the latter’s support for the purpose.

Speaking to ARY News, Mr. Baloch had said every political party had its own agenda. The JI had already been engaged in a protest campaign against Indian repression against Kashmiris in Indian occupied Kashmir, he had added.