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Pakistan has never been truly Islamic, says Gen Abbasi
2004-02-14
The Azmat-e-Islam Movement of Pakistan party chief on Friday launched an attack on Pakistani leaders and claimed that the country had never been a truely Islamic state since Independence and that there were still more than 13,000 un-Islamic rules existing in the country.
Ohfergawdsake. Get off it, why dontcha?
Major General (retd) Zaheer-ul-Islam Abbasi, also the party’s founder, told reporters at the Press Club that Islam offers perfect economic and judiciary systems, but the whole governing system had been a mix of the un-Islamic and British systems. “Because of this dual system, the country is still under a debt of US $0.35 billion. Yet, Pakistan needs US $5 billion to cover its entire foreign loans every year,” the party chief claimed. He criticised former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif for idealising former Israeli prime minister Golda Mayor and former South African president Nelson Mandela respectively, saying the two foreign leaders had no knowledge of Islam. “Even President Pervez Musharraf says his ideal person is the founder of the Turkish state, Kamal Ataturk,” he said.
Perhaps because he's read more than one book in his life?
He urged Muslim unity under the umbrella of one leader. “The past glory and the Muslim world lie in unity and discipline. The Khalafat-e-Rashda system is the only remedy to rekindle the ancient values of Muslims,” he said. He called on Muslims to shun the International Monetary Fund and other international donors and instead should rely on their own resources.
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