Atta Mohammad Noor, the chief executive of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, on Saturday accused Salahuddin Rabbani, the chairman of the party, and Ahmad Zia Massoud, a party member, of trying to monopolize the chairmanship of the party.
This comes two days after a number of members of the Jamiat-e-Islami Leadership Council, in a move led by Atta Mohammad Noor, voted in a majority to replace the current leader Salahuddin Rabbani with Enayatullah Shadab, who will now lead the council.
“They (Rabbani) said that I will not attend a meeting with Mr. Qanooni (Mohammad Younus Qanooni a member of Jamiat’s leadership council), they said they will not attend a meeting if there is Dr. Abdullah (Abdullah Abdullah the chairman of high peace council of national reconciliation). Then what meeting are you are going to attend?” Noor told TOLOnews on Saturday.
Noor said that Rabbani apparently disagrees about convening the party’s congress.
“It seems that Mr. Rabbani is against convening the congress, he wants to keep his grip on the chairmanship, whatever you call it, this is not a simple issue, he served nine years as chairman and two months as acting chief,” added Noor.
Noor said that currently Jamiat-e-Islami party is passing through a difficult time.
“If Jamiat is not involved in this game (national issues), of course, in that case, Jamiat will move towards isolation and we could see a very bad situation for Jamiat, this is what we do not want to see,” said Noor.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Zia Massoud, a member of the Jamiat party, accused Atta Mohammad Noor of making deals with the government and misusing the reputation of the party.
“Atta Mohammad Noor himself is responsible for the shortcomings and inactions. He also misused the name of Jamiat party and entered into political deals with Mr. Ashraf Ghani several times and the leadership council of Jamiat was not aware of it. Regarding the party congress, once all preparations had been completed to arrange the party congress, Atta Mohammad Noor himself said that we can’t do that because of security threats,” said Ahmad Zia Massoud, a member of Jamiat-e-Islami.
Tensions have risen among members of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, led by Atta Mohammad Noor, after Enayatullah Shadab’ replaced Salahuddin Rabbani.
Salahuddin Rabbani headed the Jamiat-e-Islami party after the assassination of the late Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former head of the High Peace Council.
Tensions between Salahuddin Rabbani and a number of members of the party escalated after an agreement was signed between President Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.
