The leadership of the banned Sipah-e-Sihaba Pakistan (SSP) urged the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl on Sunday to forget differences between the two parties. Assuming there are any significant differences...
The differences emerged when the MMA fielded a candidate against the late Maulana Azam Tariq in the 2002 elections. When Azam Tariq won the NA seat, the MMA government in NWFP banned his entry into the province. “Dr Khadim Hussain Dhilon, the secretary general of the banned SSP, met JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, and discussed the matter with him,” sources told Daily Times. The sources said both sides expressed willingness to reconcile their differences at the meeting that was arranged by Maulana Nazir Farouqi, the senior vice president of the JJ&K chapter of the JUI-F.
When contacted, Farouqi said that Dr Dhilon had only enquired about Fazl’s health at the “routine meeting”, but the sources said that Dhilon urged Fazl that both parties should resolve their differences.