The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has announced a three-day countrywide mourning to condemn the assassination by Israel of Hamas chief Sheikh Ahmad Yasin and Israeli brutality committed on innocent Palestinians. MMAâs acting Ameer and Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Qazi Hussain Ahmad announced this at a condolence meeting held in Lahore on Monday to pay a tribute to Sheikh Yasin. The JI chief said that the mourning would continue until March 24. Mr Ahmad said that Muslims had lost a great leader and brave soldier in the death of Sheikh Yasin. âIslamic movements cannot be eliminated through power and Israel has committed a blunder by launching an operation against an Islamic movement in Palestine,â he said. Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, a former president of Pakistan and chief of the Millat Party, also condemned the âbrutal assassination of the Hamas leaderâ, saying, âit is the worst example of state terrorism in Palestine by the Israeli governmentâ. He said Israelâs aggression on Palestine had become a threat to peace and this act of terrorism could also affect the on-going war on terror.
Itâs a pity Qazi isnât likely to go the same way |