NWFP observes Thanksgiving Day on passing Hasba: Everyone will be held accountable under the new law, says Siraj
* NWFP senior minister says MMA planning more Islamic laws
* MMA will defend Hasba Bill at all forums
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: People in the province were observing Friday as “thanksgiving day” to welcome the Hasba Bill passed by the Frontier Assembly, said NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq.
“United States, Britain and their allies are raising concern over the Hasba Bill because they cannot see the implementation of Sharia in any Muslim country,” Siraj told a crowd in the Mohabat Khan Mosque during his Friday sermon. He said people were celebrating the passing of the bill and bowed before Allah to thank Him for giving the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal courage to take steps for implementing Islamic laws in the province.
“We are making other Islamic laws and will implement them soon,” he said adding that they would not restrict their march towards Islamisation of the society due to fear of the evil and secular forces.
Siraj said the basic objective of the Hasba Bill was to implement Amar Bil Maroof wa Nahee Anil Munkar (to order good and forbid from evil) in society. He said every person would be made accountable under the new law. “No one will be above the Hasba law. From rulers to the ruled, every one will be treated equally,” he said.
Siraj said anti-Islamic activities would be forbidden and rights of minorities and women would be protected, adding that 140 million people were supreme to the parliament and the Supreme Court.
He said that it was deplorable that the central government was opposing the bill and added that the bill was according to Islam and the Constitution. “President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and all the federal ministers are Muslims but they are opposing the Hasba Bill only to please America,” he said. He said that the MMA government would not compromise on Islamic laws.
Siraj said the central government wanted the MMA to confine religion only to mosques as the Christians confined Christianity to churches but Islam was a complete code of life and “we will make the Sharia law supreme in every field”.
He said the MMA had the support of the province’s 20 million people and no one could defeat the alliance, adding that the MMA wanted implementation of the Islamic system across the country but it was beyond its reach.
He asked the people to come forward and help the MMA in bringing an Islamic revolution in the entire country.
Sirajul Haq said the MMA government will defend the Hasba Bill at all forums.
“We will not budge an inch from our principled position on Hasba and defend it on every level,” said Siraj. About the federal government filing a reference in the Supreme Court against the bill, he said the bill did not contain anything unconstitutional or against fundamental rights.
NWFP Law Minister Zafar Azam said the provincial government had told the advocate general and law departments to prepare a defence for the bill in the Supreme Court. “Haq will go to Lahore, consult Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Maulna Fazlur Rehman, and hire a senior lawyer to defend the Hasbah Bill,” he said.
Azam said the MMA would pay the lawyer’s fees and not the provincial government. “We have full confidence in the Supreme Court and expect it will decide justly,” he said. He said the party was astonished that the bill was being challenged in court before it became an act. He added, “The Peshawar High Court already dismissed a similar writ petition challenging the Hasba because the bill had not yet became an Act,” he said.
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