Jamaat-e-Islami Chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, former JI Chief, Qazi Husain Ahmed and JI Secretary General, Liaquat Baloch have strongly condemned the bomb blasts at Charsada in which many precious lives were lost. In a joint statement they said that killing of innocent citizens should be condemned strongly. The JI Chief said that the whole country was in the grip of terrorism.
The US had declared war against Pakistan in the form of direct attacks and terrorist activities but the rulers were completely indifferent and their sole concern was to mint money and save their government. They said that the nation would have to unite to free itself from the US war and terrorism. The JI has called upon the PEMRA chairman to stop vulgar and immoral programmes being broadcast from television channels and cable service which were polluting the minds of the people, especially the youth.
JI deputy chief, Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Saleemi, through an application under the PEMRA ordinance 2002, said that a number of TV channels and cable service operators were presenting such programmes which did not adhere to the principles of sobriety, rather they promoted vulgarity. Such programmes had the potential to distract and sabotage the desired education and upbringing of the youth of the country.
The application said these TV channels and cable operators were presenting these programmes on the instruction of international agencies/media working against the Islamic ideology and teachings and these programmes were aimed at corrupting the mental growth of the youth and corrode the rich Islamic values of the country. The applicant pointed out that the constitution fully protected the Islamic values of the citizens and all TV channels, cable operators were bound to operate in accordance with the provisions of the PEMRA Ordinance for the preservation of the religious values of the citizens protected in the constitution.-PR