Summary Petitioner says Munawar be stopped from acting as JI Amir for ridiculing armed forces.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Islamabad High Court has been moved for restraining Syed Munawar Hassan from acting as Amir Jamaat-e-Islami for ridiculing armed forces of Pakistan.
The petitioner Shahid Orakzai through a petition filed on Tuesday took the plea that statements given by Syed Munawar Hassan and silence of the government on this count can jeopardize the national security.
The court was told that Syed Munawar Hassan was among the three persons who were nominated as guarantors by a private militia which accepts the responsibility of attacking armed forces and security forces personnel with pride.
The respondent pays tribute this militia and is dubbing the violent onslaughts by this militia as acts meant for safeguarding the ideological and geographical frontiers of the country.
The petitioner raised the question if any political party or its head is entitled to make religious announcement in connection with a war on his own. If high court accepts such right of any party then it should issue certificate in this regard, he added.
JI Amir has taken no oath under the constitution; Orakzai said adding he is not aware of it what his oath says under the constitution of JI. However I don’t consider any person eligible for any office of the party under Political Parties Order-2002 who maligns army.
The court is requested to issue orders that no political party single handedly can make any religious announcement about any war besides directing the federation to snap all political contacts with Munawar Hassan, he prayed.
