Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch, has said that the use of force in the name of the Shariah was not permissible. Addressing JI workers convention in Lahore East, he said that under the 1973 constitution, no laws repugnant to the Holy Quran and the Sunnah could be enacted.
He said that the rights of the minorities were fully protected under the constitution. No group of party was allowed to thrust its viewpoint on neither the nation nor any armed struggle against the state and state institutions could be allowed.
He said that taking up arms in the name of language, region and nationalities was not permissible and all biases and forms of terrorism were against the Shariah. Liaqat Baloch said that the JI had rendered huge sacrifices for the rule of law and the supremacy of the judiciary and it wanted the courts to establish the supremacy of the constitution and the law. He said the rulers who dared to go against the constitution, could be punished only by the judiciary and none else.
He stressed upon the state institutions that the process of accountability should not be restricted to a single family. Instead, all those who had plundered public money and built unlawful properties within the country and abroad, should be subjected to accountability.