Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq while congratulating Dr. Arif Alvi on his election as President of Pakistan has expressed the hope that he would ensure the supremacy of constitution in the country.
In a message of greetings, Siraj ul Haq hoped that Dr Arif Alvi would play his role as an impartial President and seek the support of all others for the rule of law.
The JI chief said that Dr Alvi is not the President of any party but he is the President of the whole of Pakistan and he would have to come up to the dictates of his high office.
Moreover, in a telephonic conversation with the President of the International Muslim Women Union, Dr Samiha Raheel Qazi on Tuesday, on the occasion of international Hijab Day, Sirajul Haq said the West is becoming a battle ground of racism, fascist ideas, hatred and narrow mindedness towards the Muslims is intensifying.
He said the Muslim women had rendered matchless sacrifices to secure the right of Hijab but the west is denying this right to the Muslim women. Girl students wearing Hijab and scarf are being expelled from schools and colleges and, the people ridiculing Islamic signs and symbols were being honoured, he added.
He said that the hatred and biased attitude of the West towards Muslim women negates its own claim of being the champion of women rights.
The JI chief lauded the efforts of the International Muslim Women Union for the promotion of Hijab, as it had created awareness about Hijab all over the world. He said that the International Hijab Day on September 04 reminded him of a minor girl who embraced martyrdom in a German court and of a Turkish lady who lost her citizenship and membership of the parliament for the same cause.
Sirajul Haq said that Pakistan was an Islamic country and a Muslim society and there is a need to provide an Islamic environment to the women, where they could lead their lives in accordance with religion and ideology, as this is also the demand of the constitution of the country.
Published in Daily Times, September 5th 2018.
