JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that JUIF was a party that had a reputation at international and national levels adding no government at the federal level could be formed without its support and assistance.
Addressing an Ulema Conference here at Mewa Khel, the JUI-F leader said his party always adopted similar stances on every issue both with the parliament and outside it. ‘The JUI-F confronted scores of problems in the parliament however today we are being accused to be very soft to the present government in the centre’, he added. However, he said that it was crystal clear that we were taking every matter seriously.
He said the JUI got approved the Women Rights Bill from the Punjab Assembly despite having only one member in the house. He recalled that some people in the country wanted to enact legislation in the name of Halal food but we made them the difference between the ‘Halal and Haram’. The Haram things would have been declared legal in the country had there been no Ulema.
He said that fate of the FATA should be decided in accordance with the wishes of the tribal people by taking them on board with reference to bringing any change in the administrative setup of the tribal areas. ‘FATA belongs to tribesmen’, he added. He called for legislation for FATA.
The consent of the tribal people must be sought while taking any decision viz a viz its merger with KP or making it a separate province, he added. We restored the oath in original shape by incorporating Khatme Nabuwwat in it.
He underscored the need for elimination of arms culture to foil designs of the anti-Islam forces against Pakistan which wanted to dub the country as terrorist state on one pretext or the other.
