Politically Incorrect: ‘Maulvi’ is not a negative term: JUI-F

JUI-F says term "Maulvi" should be spared from political slinging match between Zardari and Nawaz.

KARACHI:

Central leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has said that President Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif should avoid defaming religion in their disputes.

“We condemn the use of the word Maulvi in an abusive way,” he said at the press club on Saturday. “The language being used during the election campaign should be condemned. They are defaming our religion to please the US.”

First, the government and other ordinary institutions were in a defensive position, but now the country’s defence institutions are on the defensive themselves, he quipped.





Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2011.