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Afghanistan
Afghanistan polls have no legitimacy: Fazl
2018-10-23
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
said on Sunday that parliamentary elections in Afghanistan did not carry any legitimacy in the presence of foreign forces.

Talking to mediapersons here on Sunday, he said elections in the war-torn country were meaningless and would not put any positive impact on the country’s future.

He argued that Afghanistan was an occupied territory where America and other countries had stationed their troops.

"As the right of self-determination has no substitution in the Indian held Kashmire, same is the case of Afghanistan," he replied when asked about the parliamentary polls in the neighbouring country.

He was of the view that a puppet government had been installed in Kabul which did not enjoy support of the Afghan nation.

He said negotiations were the only way to end four-decade-long war in Afghanistan.

Mr Rehman said Pakistain had been handed over to "incapable" people by rigging the July 25 general elections.

He said he did not accept the results of the general elections as these were ’engineered and rigged’. He predicted that international lending institutions, including IMF, won’t extend bailout package to Pakistain.

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