LAHORE – Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan on Thursday urged the masses to vote for honest people in the upcoming general elections.
Addressing a party function after taking oath from newly-elected office-bearers of the Jamaat-e-Islami at Mansoora, Munawar warned the ruling coalition of serious consequences if any attempt was made to rig the elections.
He said that the government had fulfilled one of the party’s conditions by appointing an impartial chief election commissioner, and hoped that the remaining two conditions of setting up an interim government and preparing error-free electoral rolls would also be fulfilled.
The Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer said that it was an irony that the US was not ready to offer an apology for the Salala attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops, but was keen to offer help in the Malala incident. He claimed that the Jamaat-e-Islami leadership had the potential to bring about a real change in the country.
According to the results of the intra-party polls, Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar has been reelected as the Punjab, Dr Merajul Huda as the Sindh, Prof Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Akhundzada Abdul Mateen as the Balochistan chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami; while Mian Maqsood Ahmed has been elected as the chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami Lahore. The provincial chiefs have been elected for a three-year term.