The agenda ... states that any effort to amend the practising blasphemy laws in the country would be opposed strongly and nothing less than death punishment would be acceptable for blasphemer.
Source/Credit: The Nation | Pakistan
By The Nation Staff | May 21, 2012
ISLAMABAD - Unanimously adopting the 17-point code of conduct drafted back in year 1995 aimed to create harmony among different sects, the religio-political parties of the country on Monday announced the revival of Mili Yekjehti Council (MYC) with former Amir Jammat-e-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmed as its head to patch the difference among warring religious factions.
MYC was firstly established after the efforts of late Shah Ahmed Noorani but lately over the period of time the forum had lost its significance but on Monday the right wing political parties besides religious parties announced its revival to give an end to sectarianism.
In this regard a conference titled “Ittehad-e-Ummat: Islami Yekjehti” under the auspicious of Jammat-e-Islami (JI) held here at a local hotel. Representatives of several religio-political parties participated the conference.
Representatives of most violent sectarian sect - Sipah-e-Sihaba Pakistan - who were scheduled to participate the event, did not converge to the venue, besides representatives of some religious parties who are currently active through the platform of Defence of Pakistan Council (DPC).
Addressing a news conference upon conclusion of the deliberations, Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that in the presence of DPC and Mutahida Mujlis-e-Amal (MMA), an electoral alliance of religious parties, MYC had been revived to give an end to sectarianism in the country.
“The 17-point code of conduct of MYC was drafted and representatives of all the religious sects have signed it on April 23, 1995, today we have announced to re-adopt the same code of conduct through the platform of MYC,” Qazi said.
He also said that NYC would purely be a non-political platform that would strive for legislation from the Parliament in the light of the recommendations of the Council of Islamic Ideology.
He said soon a high-powered commission would be formed to ensure the implementation of 17-point code of conduct across the board.
The 17-point agenda adopted by the participants provides creation of unity among Muslim sects by converging them on commonalties, to avoid delivering speeches by ulema amounted to hatred for other sects, an end to publish material aimed to hurt the emotions of other sects etc.
The agenda further states that any effort to amend the practising blasphemy laws in the country would be opposed strongly and nothing less than death punishment would be acceptable for blasphemer.
Ulema including Amir JI Syed Munawar Hussan, Allama Sajid Naqvi, Liaqat Baloch, Allama Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Moulana Muhammad Amin Shahidi, Moulana Abdur Rauf, Prof Abdur Rehman Makki, Moulana Abdul Malick, Pir Haroon Gilani, Qazi Hussain Naqvi, Abdur Rashid Turabi, Moulana Muzzaffar Bokhari, Pir Mehfooz Mashhadi, Sirajul Haq, Ain Ghain Qararvi, Prof Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Abdul Ghaffar Ropari and others participated the ceremony.
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