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PML-N, JUI-F agree on seat adjustments in KP

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have agreed to seat adjustments for the upcoming general elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The adjustment formula...

JUI-F, BNP-A to sit on opposition benches

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl and Balochistan National Party-Awami have decided to sit on opposition benches in Balochistan Assembly after expiry of governor’s rule in province....

Talks underway for seat adjustment between JUI-F and PML-N

Talks for seat adjustment between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl on Saturday entered final stage, JUI-F sources told Pakistan Today. They also said...

JUIF APC underway in Islamabad

The All Parties Conference (APC) organized by Jamat e Ulema Islam Fazal ur Rehman is underway at Islamabad at the convention center. A total...

The resolution

The problem with the parliament The military has at its disposal all the muscle and money that it wants. The courts have at their disposal...

JUI-F protests against attacks on party chief

ISLAMABAD - As planned, a large number of workers of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) held a rally in Islamabad on Friday to protest against two consecutive suicide attacks on their party chief. The rally started from Lal Masjid and ended at Aabpara Choke, where several JUI-F leaders addressed the participants. The demonstrators carried placards and chanting slogans against the US and Pakistani governments. Addressing protestors, JUI-F Central General Sectary Maulana Abdul Ghafur

JUI-F protests against attack on Fazl’s convoy

LAHORE - The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Friday held a protest against the attack on JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman's convoy outside the Lahore Press Club. Addressing the protesters, JUI-F leaders said that the US and its agents are behind the incident and they will force the US to leave Pakistan. They said that Taliban are not involved in the attack and the federal government should not malign others. "Pakistan was created for Islam, not for the new world order. President

JUI-F protests against attack on Fazl’s convoy

LAHORE - The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Wednesday held a protest outside the Lahore Press Club against the attack on JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman's convoy in Swabi.
JUI-F leaders including Maulana Amjad Khan, Qari Sanaullah, Maulana Mohibun Nabi, Qari Amjad, Hafiz Abu Bakar and Abdul Majid Haqqani attended the protest. The protesters burnt US flags and chanted anti-US slogans. Addressing the protesters, Amjad termed the attack as an US conspiracy. He said that Fazl

JI condemns attack on JUI-F rally

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan and JI Secretary General Liaquat Baloch strongly condemned the bomb blast in a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) rally in Sawabi welcoming the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday.
In a joint statement here, the JI leaders said that the federal and provincial governments had completely failed to protect the life and property of the people. They said such subversive activities would continue as long as the Central

JUI-F unlikely to boycott joint session

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) will attend a joint session of parliament scheduled to be held tomorrow (Tuesday), contrary to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)'s decision to boycott parliament proceedings.
According to a source in the party, the party top leadership will meet today (Monday) with JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman in the chair to devise a strategy viz-a-viz the joint session and will reach a decision on what to do next. However, he hoped that the

Raymond Davis issue – JI, JUI-F differ on possible out-of-court settlement

ISLAMABAD - The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have warned the government of dire consequences in case Raymond Davis was released without fulfilling legal requirements; however, the two parties differ on a possible out-of-court settlement.
The JI, which fears an 'illegal' out-of-court settlement, has changed its posture on the issue, demanding the government book the US national under the Anti-Terrorism Act in order to make the offence non-compoundable

MQM, JUI-F won’t join PM’s new ‘lean and mean’ team

ISLAMABAD - The en masse resignations of the federal ministers enabling Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to form a new "lean and mean" team triggered an intense lobbying for the slots in the new cabinet with President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani making a last ditch effort to convince the MQM and JUI-F to join the federal cabinet.
The resignations of the federal ministers, ministers of state and advisers were sent to President Zardari for acceptance. However, they

36 days on – JUI-F, MQM ministers’ resignations still not accepted

ISLAMABAD - The government continues to sit on the resignations of the JUI-F and the MQM ministers despite the fact that they had stepped down a month ago, expecting that its two estranged allies might rejoin the federal cabinet.
The resignations seem to have gone lost somewhere on the road between the Presidency and the Prime Minister's House. The PM House says that the resignations have been sent to the Presidency while the presidential spokesman denies receiving them.

JUI-F softens towards PPP

ISLAMABAD - Agreeing to the prime minister's proposal of appointing Attaur Rehman, former tourism minister as a representative of the treasury benches in the parliamentary committee on the constitution of a neutral and independent Election Commission, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) is showing signs of softening its stance towards the Pakistan People's Party-led government.
According to a source, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman before

Not rejoining, says JUI-F

ISLAMABAD - Ruling out any possibility of rejoining the government, JUI-F Senator Abdul Gafoor Haideri said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani should opt for an honourable exit and dissolve the cabinet to let someone else form the government.
"The prime minister has a better option to dissolve the cabinet and let someone else form the government. Even the Awami National Party (ANP) has advised him to do so. If the no-confidence vote is moved against the prime minister, it will be

JUI-F asks Sherry to withdraw blasphemy bill

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

JUI-F wants PM Gilani to go

ISLAMABAD - As the country's political drama approaches a climax, the JUI-F wants to take the move it started for the removal of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to its logical end and is striving hard to form a JUIF-PMLQ-MQM bloc to worsen the miseries of the crumbling PPP government.
The alliance-in-the-making would also put the biggest opposition party, the PML-N, in isolation and fix it on the question whether it should let the PPP government stay under the pretext of