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Always on the wrong side of history

Dawn Online
The Jamaat-e-lslami never misses an opportunity to be on the wrong side of history. Since its inception, it has acted against the very interests of the people it pretends to serve.
Last week Syed Munawar Hassan, who heads Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), declared the former head of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakeemullah Mehsud, a martyr. Mehsud reportedly died of a missile fired from an unmanned drone in North Waziristan. The Pakistan Army took serious offense
Fareed Paracha, Jamaat's spokesperson, rejected the impression that the party had distanced itself from Hassan's statement. Instead, Paracha argued that Hassan's statement reflected views of the Jamaat.
Angered by the statement, a political adviser to the PPP, Ghaudhry Fawad Hussain, served a legal notice on Jamaat-e-Islami chief and asked the Election Gommission of Pakistan to cancel the party's registration.
The war in Bangladesh resulted in the death of tens of thousands of people (three million).
to the statement by Hassan and found it insulting to the memory of thousands of soldiers who have died fighting militants.
The Jamaat's long history of being on the wrong side of history started in 1947 when it opposed an independent homeland for the Muslims of South Asia. In 1971, it sided with the military in its campaign against the populist freedom struggle in Bangladesh. Later in 1985, the Jamaat sided with yet another military'dictator, General Ziaul Haq, and assisted him in subverting democracy and radicalising the youth to fuel the war against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan.
Today, the Jamaat has come in support of the militants who have declared war on Pakistan's establishment and its civil society. For these reasons, and despite its organisational structure, the Jamaat has failed to win over the imagination of the electorate in either Pakistan or Bangladesh.
It had an opportunity to lay the blame on Hassan and absolve itself of any direct responsibility. However, the party, which appears to be on a collision course with the state and the constitution for decades, yet again opted for collision rather than collaboration.
The Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh provided recruits for militias who joined the military campaign against the Bengalis by the East Pakistan-dominated Army. The Jamaat was banned in 1971 after Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan. The Jamaat's leadership in Bangladesh fled to Pakistan. More recently, the Bangladesh Supreme Court in August this year declared the Jamaat's registration illegal, thus restricting it from contesting elections at least for now.
It is rather surprising to see Pakistan's army' taking a stand against the Jamaat, which has always found a way to support the Army whenever it suspended the constitution or the democratic process. However, given the large number of dead and injured soldiers in the fight against the militants, the army felt compelled to take issue with the Jamaat that declared the former head of the Taliban a martyr.
The Jamaat has always acted as a spoiler in Pakistan. Knowing that the electorate has rejected the Jamaat in every election, it runs the election campaigns on false promises, knowing that it will never be asked to deliver on the claims it made. I lowever, this makes the life