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Govt will never strike a deal with Fazlur Rehman: interior minister
[DAWN] Interior Minister retired Brig Ijaz Ahmad Shah on Wednesday said that the government will never strike a deal with 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 that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... and was confident that his call for a march on Islamabad will not be met with the kind of response Rehman seeks. "People will not join Fazlur Rehman in this exercise," the interior minister declared in an exclusive interview with DawnNewsTV. He went on to say that not only will there be no deal, but the JUI-F chief will himself lose interest and back off from the idea. The interior minister said that he respects Rehman, "as he is, after all, a religious scholar," but questioned the wisdom of such a move "when India has its hands over our jugular vein (Kashmir  ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Brig Shah expressed conviction that the government will not only prevail in this term but will succeed in getting re-elected for another. "In the next four years, Pakistain will witness substantial improvements," he added. He said that the condition the country was currently in could not be blamed on one individual. "The ruling class has destroyed Pakistain," he said, holding all previous governments equally responsible. Related: Fazlur Rehman: 2019-09-05 Hamza Shahbaz sent to jail on 14-day judicial remand Fazlur Rehman: 2019-09-03 Two shopkeepers killed, as many passers-by injured in groups clash in Gujrat Fazlur Rehman: 2019-08-28 Long march call against govt receives cold response Posted by: Fred 2019-09-12 |
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