...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) on Friday held rallies across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
to condemn suicide kaboom on the party chief
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 ...
during a public meeting in Quetta on Thursday, and demanded arrest of the perpetrators.
The party activists took out a procession from the Namak Mandi mosque in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
city, which turned into a public meeting at Qissa Khwani after passing through different roads.
The party's provincial general secretary Maulana Shujaul Mulk and former provincial minister Maulana Amanullah Haqqani led the rally. The participants were holding banners and placards inscribed with demands for arrest of the perpetrators of the suicide kaboom.
Shouting slogans against the terrorists, the protesters called upon the federal and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
governments to take immediate steps for arrest of those involved in the terrorist act.
They said that JUI-F had always worked for enforcement of Islamic system in the country and had very open policies, but even then its emir was targeted for the third time.
"We will give all kind of sacrifices for protection of our leader and the murderous Moslems cannot cow us down through such coward tactics," vowed the speakers.