ISLAMABAD – The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Wednesday asked Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) parliamentarian Sherry Rehman to withdraw a proposed bill submitted in the National Assembly seeking amendments in the blasphemy law.
The JUI-F parliamentary party, which met under the chairmanship of party Secretary General Abdul Ghafoor Haideri pressed the former information minister to change her point of view on the issue.
JUI-F’s Ismail Buledi told Pakistan Today that his party held the government responsible for Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer’s assassination. “Salmaan Taseer should have given a responsible statement on the issue,” the meeting held. Buledi said a Namoos-e-Risalat conference would be held in Karachi on January 9.
He said the JUI-F had also decided to boycott the meeting summoned by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for deliberations on the situation arising out of the recent hike in petroleum prices. Discussing the current political situation in the country, the JUI-F tagged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz a ‘friendly opposition’ as it had decided to let the PPP government stay in the Centre. Buledi said the JUI-F and the MQM had been criticised for sticking to the government but once they parted ways with it, the “friendly opposition seems in no mood to bring a political change in the country”.
