Chief Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hassan has announced all-out support for the lawyers' strike for January 28 at the call of the Lawyers Co-ordination Council. In a press statement here on Tuesday, he advised the government to implement the court decisions promptly, instead of opting for the confrontation with the judiciary and take practical measures for bringing back millions of dollars of public money lying in the Swiss banks.
JI Chief said that the chances of independent judiciary in the country had brightened with the Supreme Courts decision on NRO. The countrywide movement of the lawyers for the restoration of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftekhar Muhammad Chaudhry had played an important role in this regard while the political and the religious parties of the country besides the civil society also took active part in that struggle.
Munawar Hassan said that society sans justice could not survive. The JI, he said was striving for the rule of law and justice and for the solution to the masses' problems and it would continue to play its role in the struggle for the judiciary's independence and human rights.
While Secretary General, JI, Liaquat Baloch in a press statement on Tuesday said that JI had made all preparations for expressing complete solidarity with Kashmiris from February 1st to five and chalked out programs in this regard. He said that the people of held Kashmir have clearly demonstrated their opposition for illegal Indian occupation on Kashmir by observing India's Republic Day, as 'Black Day'.