KARACHI: Taliban are
inhumane, illiterate and people from the stone-age, said Muttahida Qaumi
Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday in Karachi.
Hussain was addressing the
participants of a conference held in honour of Malala Yousafzai.
The 14-year-old child rights
activists was attacked by Taliban gunmen on October 9 when she was on her way
home from school.
Hussain said that if the armed
forces fail to apprehend these culprits, then the nation will be left with no
other option but to look towards the international community for the safety of
their children.
“May I ask where are Pakistan’s
armed forces, and its high-ranking personnel who utilise up to 80% of the
country’s resources?” the MQM chief questioned.
He further questioned the role of
the political and religious parties. “Why are they quiet, why don’t they fight
against the Taliban?” he stressed.
“See their wealth, their property;
see how much they have gained through politics. Unfortunately, they are not
fulfilling their national obligations and responsibilities,” he said.
Female education and Islam
Calling Malala a beacon of hope for
millions of girls in Pakistan, Hussain asked if acquiring education was a
crime.
He further said that the Taliban’s
stance on female education was against the teachings of Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH).
Hussain added that there are very
few religious scholars who preach the correct version of the religion, while
the rest are all “religious thugs” whose agenda is to “sell Islam”.
“I am humbly requesting all the
genuine religious leaders and scholars to speak up now. It is your duty. If you
remain silent then you are similar to the terrorists,” he said.
Speaking about the injustices taking
place in the country, the MQM chief said that his party has always condemned
oppression regardless of the consequences – be it the attack on Malala, the
blasphemy case against Rimsha Masih or attacks on churches and temples.
“MQM was, is and will always remain
against drone attacks,” he added.
Suo motu
The MQM chief called on Chief
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the brazen attack
on Malala.
“We don’t want a favour, we want
justice,” he said.
Movement to mobilise people
While speaking to the gathering, MQM
Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar said the event is the first step in a movement
to mobilise people against extremism and militancy.
He stated that Quaid-e-Azam’s
Pakistan is engulfing into the darkness and everyone needs to unite in order to
save it.
Commenting on the attack on Malala,
Sattar said that it was an attack on Jinnah’s Pakistan, Allama Iqbal’s vision
and the ideology of the country. “The attack on Malala was an attack on
Pakistan’s conscience,” he stressed.
He further said that a handful of
militants wanted to enforce their way of life on the people of Pakistan.
Source
of news: www.mqm.com
Herbal system of medicines more beneficial: claims Hakeem Ghaffar
By Iqbal Hasan Rizvi
KARACHI,
20 Sept. – The importance of treatment of various diseases through herbal
system of medicines was highlighted at a seminar organized by Sir Syed
University of Engineering & Technology.
Speaking
as chief guest on the occasion Hakeem Syed Abdul Ghaffar Agha dilated upon the
important features of herbal treatment and said it is a proven fact that
allopathic medicines have their own side effects while herbal lacks any risk
factor.
“This
is the reason why allopathic doctors add extra medicines in the prescription as
precautionary measure to counter side effects of allopathic drugs”, he
remarked.
Hakeem
Ghaffar was of the view that being close to the nature, no one can deny the
potentiality of herbal medicines even in this advanced scientific era.
According
to him powdered milk was not good for health because it is boiled at 160
degrees which reduces the quantity of calcium and that causes obesity.
Similarly one paratha is equivalent to 4 slices of bread.
He
said it has become a fashion not to have breakfast while it is so important for
health because it provides energy to the body. The people who skip lunch gain
weight and those who don’t take dinner have the shorter age.
The
seminar ended with a vote of thanks by Registrar Shah Mahmood H. Syed.
With nationalist parties pouring scorn on the PPP and Muttahida Qaumi Movement over the new local government law, the PPP has been in a sense forced to display its political prowess.
While preparations for the public meeting are in their final stages at the ground behind a private hospital off National Highway, a war of words between the government and its opponents is also gaining pace.
All arrangements for rallies have been finalised and more than 10,000 security personnel will be deployed to prevent any law and order situation cropping up due to the expected agitation by nationalist workers.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah earlier on Sunday, chaired a high level meeting, to review the arrangements for PPP public meeting.
The Chief Minister directed Inspector General of Police to ensure fool-proof security at the public meeting. He said that PPP public meeting in Hyderabad on Sunday would be a historic meeting.
It would be participated by a large number of people. Thus, he said, fool-proof security was very much needed to ensure safety of the participants. This mammoth rally would foil the negative propaganda by political opponents, he said.
Syed Qaim Ali Shah, who is also provincial president of PPP , said that he would a lead a big rally of thousands of people from his native town Khairpur Mirs to Hyderabad. (agencies)
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