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Hafiz Hashmat

Hafiz Hashmat

Jamaat-e-Islami

Afghanistan-Pak-India

20051030

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India-Pakistan

Countrywide protests over Lal Masjid assault

2007-07-14

A large number of Islamists rallied on Friday to denounce the government for ordering an army crackdown on Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa. Protests were held in several towns and cities across the country after Friday prayers but none was very big and there were no reports of trouble, agencies reported. “This chapter has not ended here. The bloodshed at Lal Masjid will lead to an Islamist revolution in Pakistan,” MMA central leader Liaqat Baloch told a rally of about 300 people in Lahore. Protesters burned effigies of President Pervez Musharraf and US President George W Bush and shouted “Long live the martyrs of Lal Masjid”. Protesters burned effigies of President Pervez Musharraf and US President George W Bush and shouted “Long live the martyrs of Lal Masjid”. In Multan, a cleric and member of an alliance of madrasas said the crackdown boded ill for all madrasas. “It was part of a conspiracy against madrassas,” Qari Hanif Jallandari told a rally. Staff Report adds: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) failed to gather the people in Islamabad to protest against the military operation against Lal Masjid. Only about three dozen protesters led by MMA leader Abdul Ghafoor Haidri turned up at Fire Brigade Stop in Sector G-7 and shouted slogans against the government. In Peshawar, a MMA rally marched from Masjid Qasim Ali Khan to Qissa Khwani Bazaar where NWFP Zakat Minister Hafiz Hashmat, Auqaf Minister Amanullah Haqqani and MMA NWFP Secretary General Shabbir Ahmed Khan addressed the participants. The speakers condemned the military action against the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa administrations, terming it a “brutal act”.

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Amir Cheema’s death should not be allowed to go in vain: minister

2006-05-15

The federal government should sever diplomatic ties with Germany to protest the alleged death of a Pakistani, Amir Cheema, in German police custody. That'd be a move of sheer brilliance, about the kind of suggestion we've come to expect from NWFP ministers... “This is a cold blooded murder of a lover of the Holy Prophet (PTUI PBUH), and it should not be allowed to go unnoticed,” NWFP Minister Hafiz Hashmat told hundreds of people at Cheema’s funeral prayers at Jinnah Park on Sunday. Except that the autopsy showed he offed himself, rather than being tortured to death as he likely would have been in a Pak prison. The minister criticised federal government officials for not participating in the several funeral prayers offered in various parts of the country. How callous of them. They're probably bored to death with the whole incident by now. Cheema was allegedly killed in a German jail, whereas the German authorities claimed that he had committed suicide. And proved it to the Pak government representatives who were duly dispatched to Berlin... Participants also passed a resolution demanding the NWFP and federal governments check intelligence and law enforcing agencies’ uncontrolled raids to arrest foreigners illegally. Wouldn't want to disturb the locals' guests, would we? The resolution was put forward by JI leader Sabir Hussain Awan. The resolution also demanded NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani suspend heads of intelligence agencies involved in implicating foreigners in fake cases and linking them with militants groups. And they're all fake, y'know... Hashmat said he had talked to Durrani about the matter, but the chief minister had failed to do anything in this regard, and the issue would now be raised in the next cabinet meeting. Sabir said the frequent raids and arrests of ‘innocent people’ were promoting hatred among people against the army. The leader said he personally knew several people who had been arrested by agencies, but they had never been associated with any militant organisation. They were all simple holy men with extensive gun collections, many of them passed down from father to son...

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JI tells provincial govt to ban Eid fairs

2005-10-30

"It don't say Eid 'til Qazi sez it sez Eid, capische?" PESHAWAR: Leader of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Peshawar, MNA Sabir Hussain Awan has said that they would distribute 10000 Eid gifts worth Rs 2500 each among the quake survivors and demanded of the provincial government to ban Eid fairs (Melas) in order to express sympathy and solidarity with quake affected people. “We are going to establish relief camps at all the mosques of provincial metropolitan on the day of Eid, to collect donations and get volunteers for the help of quake victims,” he told a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Friday. Provincial Minister for Zakaat and Usher Hafiz Hashmat, who is also associated with JI, was also present on the occasion. So NWFP's minister for charity is affiliated with JI. How unsurprizing. And how sad. Sabir said that all these Eid gifts provided by Amir JI Qazi Hussain Ahmad would be carried by a group of JI activists comprising 250 persons under his leadership to the quake affected areas of NWFP from Peshawar on the second day of coming Eid. “We have sent 750 activists of JI from Peshawar to the affected areas who are taking part in relief operation. Besides we had established 7 relief camps at Peshawar district wherein we collected Rs 4.3 million donations for quake affectees as well we have distributed 23 trucks of relief goods among quake survivors” he said.

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