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Parliament not in favour of restoring Nato supply route: Fazl
[Dawn] Chief of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F)  Maulana Fazlur RehmanDeobandi holy man, known as Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... on Sunday spoke about the reservations on the recommendations by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, DawnNews reported. Speaking to a large gathering in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Rehman said that the opposition parties want further discussions on the recommendations. He further said that there is no military solution of the Afghanistan issue. He said that the government was discussing opening the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supply route with the US but was making it seem as if it is the Parliament's decision. The JUI-F chief said that if the government restored the routes, it will be its own decision and not the Parliament's. He said that the country will not support this decision. Rehman said that the country was blindly following a foreign policy imported from abroad and said that an independent foreign policy can only be devised after economic stability. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-26 |
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