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New Delhi, March 22
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the opposition leader in the Pakistan National Assembly, is coming to India April 22-23 to finalise plans to mark 150 years of the 1857 war of independence.
He will also take part in a seminar on former Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Hind chief and ex-Congress Rajya Sabha MP Maulana Asad Madani here.
The seminar will serve as an occasion to finalise a long-drawn programme the Jamiat is launching to commemorate the completion of 150 years of the revolt, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
"Rehman is very enthusiastic of Jamiat plans to hold joint celebrations along with their Indian counterpart on this occasion," Jamiat secretary and spokesman Maulana Hameed Nomani told IANS.
The mode and means for the joint mutiny celebrations - to commemorate the unity of Hindus and Muslims in an armed struggle against British imperialism - will be decided only after Rehman meets Jamiat members in India, Nomani said.
Rehman heads the Muttahida Majlise Amal (MMA), a grouping of Islamist parties in Pakistan that enjoys a majority in Balochistan and the North-West Frontier Province. Rehman's Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Islam is the leading force in MMA, and an offshoot of the Indian Jamiat, formed during the sub-continent's 1947 partition.
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