Resolution bans all types of supplies to NATO forces, claims Fazl

JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman has claimed that the parliamentary resolution has prohibited all types of supplies including arms shipments through Pakistan to NATO forces in Afghanistan and now the government cannot open the supplies through an administrative order.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, the JUI-F chief said the government would have to follow the recommendations in Section 8 of the resolution and if it resumed the supplies, it would be violating the parliamentary recommendations which the JUI-F would strongly resist.
He said the JUI-F got its viewpoint included in the recommendations and controversial sections were deleted. He claimed that adoption of the parliamentary recommendations had laid the foundation of a new and independent foreign policy, adding that in the past, a foreign policy imported from the United States was being implemented.
Fazl said the prime minister had assured them that implementation of the recommendations would be carried out and in the light of the resolution, Pakistan was no more an ally of the US.
He said a recommendation to end verbal agreements with the US had been included on the JUI-F’s insistence.
The JUI-F chief said the headlines in the newspapers were contrary to the actual recommendations. He said his party forced the government to agree to the amendments in the previous recommendations and the PML-N was informed about after the agreement with the government was taken place.
Fazl said the PML-N and the PML-Q had proposed linking of drone attacks with supply line and the JUI-F took the stand of complete closure of the supply line. He said the drone attacks could be stopped with the use of force and it was the responsibility of the government to stop them.
Asked about change in the stance of the JUI-F after his meeting with the president, Fazl said he had never accepted the demands of the President but it was on the other way round.
Asked about the Pakistan Defence Council’s criticism of the recommendations, Fazl said he had telephoned Hafiz Saeed and briefed him in detail about the new recommendations, adding that Hafiz Saeed had expressed his satisfaction over them.