Turabi meets in Qatar leaders of Islamic movements including chairman of the Palestinian Hamas's political bureau

Leader of the Sudanese opposition People's Congress party Hassan Turabi met in Doha yesterday several figures representing Islamic movements.

The official in the party al-Mahboub Abdul Salam said that Turabi met with the chairman of the political bureau of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, Khaled Mashaal. He said that Turabi's meeting with Mashaal dealt with developments on the Palestinian and Sudanese arenas and what should be done to withstand standing challenges.

The official in the Sudanese party also made talks with the leader of the Algerian national salvation front Abbasi Madani who is visiting Qatar for medical treatment and to meet with the Islamic scholar sheikh Yousself al-Qardawi.

Al-Mahboub explained that the meetings were to discuss Islamic and Arab issues, in general, noting that the meeting with al-Qardawi reviewed intellectual projects the two men intend to make concerning developments taking place on the Islamic arena.

Al-Mahboub stressed that Turabi and al-Qardawi agreed to intensify writing and to call for freedoms, and Shoura, as well as to call for pan international conferences that cope with the Islamic reconnaissance.

Amir of Qatar, Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani met with Turabi two days earlier. The visit is the first for the leader of the opposition People's Congress abroad since his release one month ago.