[Dawn] The Sunni Tehrik, hitherto known as a religious organization, announced on Sunday that it was converting itself into a political party to be called Pakistain Sunni Tehrik....formed in Bloody Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities...
The announcement was made by the head of the Tehrik, Maulana Sarwat Ejaz Qadri, who was addressing the "Pakistain Bachao Janisaran-i-Mustafa Conference" held in Nishtar Park among slogans of "Pakistain ki safety, PST, PST".
Mr Quaderi said the PST would launch its political campaign on March 23 with a rally at Minar-i-Pakistain in Lahore and unveil its manifesto and programme which would aim at ushering in a 'Mustafvi Revolution' to eliminate injustices and terrorism.
He said the party would strive for the supremacy of law, adding that student wings of the party had already been set up in colleges and universities under the name of Pakistain Islamic Student Federation.
He said the PST would field its candidates throughout Pakistain.
There will be no hereditary politics and the only criteria for leadership will be commitment to service, sacrifice and fear of Allah Almighty.
"Our journey will be for martyrdom for the glory of Islam and survival of Pakistain," he said. The main objective of the party will be to turn Pakistain into a welfare state.
Maulana Quaderi said that although 63 leaders and workers of the party had been killed it had not given up its message of peace, love and fraternity. It upheld the rule of law and continued its struggle against soaring prices, terrorism, oppression and injustices by organising rallies in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Sukkur, Lahore and Islamabad.
He said that everyone talked about accountability, but no-one took the first step of starting it from himself or from his own party.
"But from here, I start accountability of our leaders who neither own any plot or asset nor any bank accounts within the country or abroad. Their total assets and accounts are the people of Pakistain and the motherland."
He criticised the PML-N and JUI, without naming them, and accused them of using the sacred name of Islam for their political ends. He said Islam could not be enforced by people sitting in Islamabad.
He said when the aspirations of the party (meaning JUI) were not met its leaders quit the government and started exploiting the sacred name of Islam. These people, he alleged, were in politics for the sake of dollars and riyals and not for Islam.
He accused another political party of 'providing oxygen' to banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations which were involved in acts of terrorism across the country and said that his party had decided to join politics to eradicate the menace of terrorism and "enlightened tsunami".
Referring to US drone attacks, he said these were not the result of policies of the GHO or agencies, but a reaction to acts of Islamic fascisti who did not hesitate to kill their fellow Mohammedans by declaring them infidels and cutting their throats and limbs by using the sacred name of Islam.
They were now planning to impost their ideology by force in Sindh and
Punjab, he said.Maulana Quaderi referred to liquidation of two activists of the party on Sunday and warned the government that if their killers were not locked away within 24 hours, his party would hold a sit-in outside the CM House and Governor House.
Earlier, Allama Shah Turabul Haq said that the wave of terrorism could have been checked by arresting the culprits behind the Nishtar Park kaboom.
The real assassins who organised the suicide kaboom, he said, were yet to be locked away.
Haji Hanif Tayyab said the country was in grip of soaring prices, corruption and mismanagement, but the government had no time to pay attention to problems which had hit all segments of society, especially the poor and lower middle classes.
Other leaders who addressed the conference were Ali Nawaz Khaskheli, Shahibzada Rehan Nomani, Shabbir Abu Talib, Pir Rizwan Jeelani and Tariq Mehmood.Strict security arrangements had been made at the venue of the meeting to avert any untoward incident. Besides Rangers and police, activists of the party manned all entry and exit points.
Scores of people, including prominent