Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri has said that religious parties might form an alliance and contest the 2018 general elections on a single platform, adding that “efforts are under way to make this possible.”
The JUI-F leader, addressing the participants of a conference in Hyderabad, said, “All religious parties want to form an alliance to participate in the next general election.”
He said the religious parties would ensure they were not “robbed” of their mandate.
Discussing the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, he said if there were an “Islamic” government in Pakistan, it would have prevented their persecution.
India and some other countries wanted to destabilise Pakistan, he said, adding they would not be allowed to succeed in their nefarious designs.
“The country is hit by poverty, unrest and instability and it is being run on foreign loans and by selling national assets,” he said. “There is a clash under way between state institutions.”