LAHORE: The Sunni Ittehad Council on Saturday asked the leadership of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan to directly contact political parties including the Jamaat-i-Islami and seek their guarantee for facilitating holding of a Manazra (debate) in Lahore on sensitive religious issues.
On the other hand, the JI leadership has refused to become part of the SIC-TTP debate on these issues, describing it as a futile exercise.
The TTP had reportedly agreed to be one-on-one with the SIC clerics in Lahore if they ask three parties including the JI and the PTI to guarantee an enabling environment amid security.
“As the TTP leaders have recently said they don’t want destruction in Pakistan any more, we welcome their statement and are ready for talking with them on certain issues under this spirit. But since the offer of Manazra was floated by the TTP, it’s better for it to directly contact these parties for their guarantee of facilitating the event in Lahore rather than pressing the SIC to do so,” SIC chief Sahibzada Muhammad Hamid Raza said in a statement.
As for question by the Taliban about the SIC writ in Pakistan, the SIC leader said his party never claimed of having its own writ in the country. The SIC believed in the government writ in the country and such Manazra must be held under the government’s writ, he added.
He said though the SIC agreed on the presence of Ittehad-i-Madaris-i-Deenia as arbitrators (as the TTP demanded), it also desired participation of the chief justice of Pakistan and chief justices of the high courts as judges of the debate. “We are demanding this because the judges are very respectable and honest and know well about Islamic laws and issues better than others,” Raza said.
JI central leader Dr Farid Piracha said the TTP or the SIC should contact the government directly regarding security. He said since there were many precedents of debates on various Islamic issues in the history of Pakistan and Islam, the JI was neither a facilitator nor did it believe in resolving important issues through such debates. He said instead of such debates, the parties and the government should jointly work for holding dialogues with the Taliban.
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