...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...
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 ...
has warned that hasty decision will have serious consequences for the government if supply of goods to NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces in Afghanistan is restored without a consensus resolution of the parliament.
"We will block all routes if government permits resumption of NATO supplies," he told a rally of party workers here on Sunday.
He said that unseen forces had settled all important issues with America when Parliamentary Committee on National Security was in session.
"Major issues with America have already been decided. Now they have been passing the buck to parliament," he said. He added that parliament had already passed two joint resolutions and All Parties Conference also approved some recommendations.
Unfortunately the resolutions and recommendations had been put into cold storage, Mr Rehman said, adding his party would not accept a resolution if it was passed from the parliament with majority.
The rally titled "Islam Zindabad Conference" was held near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway. A portion of the Ring Road was closed to traffic owing to security reasons.
Around 5,000 baton wielding volunteers of the party and anti-terrorism squad of police were deployed on the venue while roads were blocked with barbed wire. The organisers had claimed that over one million people would attend the rally.
However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
despite extensive campaign and arrangements the show was not impressive although JUI has considerable street power in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and tribal areas. The workers and seminary students affiliated with JUI were brought from all 25 districts of the province and Fata.
Mr Rehman said that some powers were trying to sabotage reconciliation process in Afghanistan by sending fresh consignments of weapons to the war-torn country.
"Afghan government is ready for talks with Taliban. US President Barack Obama
This is a teachable moment...
has stated that Taliban are not forces of Evil and started peace talks with them in Qatar. Then why containers loaded with weapons are transported to Afghanistan via Pakistain," he questioned.
The JUI chief said that head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council Sibghatullah Mujadidi
... the only ex-president of Afghanistan who has not yet been assassinated...
had told him that Afghan government had declared Taliban as opposition and they were not terrorists.