MANSEHRA: Scholars of different schools of Islamic thought have formed a peace committee to help the law-enforcement and security agencies fight terrorism in Balakot tehsil.
\n\u201cWe will stand with our security forces and law-enforcement agencies in their fight against terrorism and will never allow anyone to penetrate into our ranks for subversive activities on our soil. We have established a peace committee to help eliminate terrorism,\u201d MaulanaKhalilurRehman told a jirga of ulema and religious scholars.
\nThe participants, who belonged to Dalola area located on Abbottabad-Mansehra border, later named MaulanaKhalilurRehman as the patron-in-chief of the committee, MaulanaHaroonurRasheed deputy patron-in-chief, QaziNoman president and MaulanaShamasurRehman secretary general.
\nThey also decided other office-bearers of the committee would be named afterwards. The participants said ulema and religious scholars wouldn\u2019t discuss sectarian matters in mosques and other places.
\n\u201cNobody will be allowed to be part of mosques or seminaries until the peace committee verifies his credentials,\u201d said MrRehman.
\nMrQaziNoman said the provincial had formed reconciliatory committees at village and union council levels but ironically, ulema and religious scholars were not made part of them.
\nHe said the inclusion of religious scholars would have made reconciliatory committee very effective to further the cause of peace.
\nDeputy superintendent of the police, Balakot, Mukhtar Shah, who also in attendance, praised religious scholars for standing with the police and security forces against terrorism.
\nMeanwhile, the Jamaat-i-Islami, Mansehra chapter, has announced it will field honest people for the elections to be held for two national and five provincial assembly seats in the district. The announcement was made by JI district chief Sajjad Ali Shah while addressing the oath-taking ceremony for the party\u2019s newly-elected youth body members in Oghi on Thursday.
\nMr Shah said the party\u2019s politics was meant to serve the people and that the honest and modest people could best serve the people and therefore, such people would be fielded for the next elections in Mansehra.
\nHe said the plunderers of national wealth had long been ruling the country and therefore, the there was no rule of law and justice in the country and instead, corruption was rampant.
\nThe JI district chief said after coming to power, his party would ensure the development of the people and dispensation of justice to them by enforcing Islamic laws. Earlier, he administered the oath to the new members of the JI youth body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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