LAHORE: Pakistan Ulema Council Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has challenged Zaid Hamid to hold a dialogue over allegations he made in a TV programme.
In a letter to Zaid Hamid on Tuesday, Ashrafi said that he should talk sensibly and prove his allegations. He said that Zaid should tell the nation about himself and his thoughts about Khatm-e-Nubawwat first.
Later, talking to Daily Times, Mahmood Ashrafi said that Zaid was a self-styled paragon of the ultra-right and was using Islam and patriotism as a tool for his ulterior motives. He said that he had no right to label charges against people. He said that he had labelled SAFMA as an extension of the Indian intelligence agency RAW, which was altogether baseless. Recalling the Yusuf Kazab case, Ashrafi said that Zaid had gone to Imtiaz Alam and had asked him to rescue Kazab but Alam had refused to help him. Zaid had also been nominated in Maulana Saeed Jalalpuri murder case, he added. He said that Zaid was now targeting those people who had refused to help him in Kazab case.
He said that nobody knew what Zaid was, whether he was a right-winger, the army’s representative, a holy warrior, an intellectual or a saint. staff report.