Fazl optimistic about success of no-trust move

JUI-F chief says govt’s attempts to save Senate chairman will fail

QUETTA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said the opposition-powered no-confidence motion against Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani would succeed as political forces in the country are committed to take bold decisions in the greater national interest.

The veteran politician, who arrived in Quetta on Saturday for his party’s ‘million march’, expressed confidence that the joint opposition would get the incumbent Senate chairman unseated and replaced with their joint candidate.



He added that attempts by “certain political forces to portray the no-trust confidence as a conspiracy against Balochistan, from where Sanjrani hails, are doomed to fail”.

“Opposition parties will replace Sanjrani with another candidate [Hasil Bizenjo] from Balochistan and I am confident that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will support the move till the very end,” said Fazl while speaking to journalists in the provincial capital.

President Arif Alvi has summoned a Senate session on August 1, in which the motion would be taken up.

Fazl, meanwhile, also took a swipe at Sanjrani, questioning his credentials before quipping: “I don’t think Sadiq Sanjrani, as Senate chairman, has done anything for the people of Balochistan.”

He was flanked by the JUI-F’s provincial chief Abdul Wassay, Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri– who has previously served as Senate deputy chairman – Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Younus Aziz Zehri and senior party leaders.

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The JUI-F leader also fired a salvo at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led government, saying Prime Minister Imran Khan had duped the masses with his promises.

“People are becoming homeless, inflation is skyrocketing, while the mounting debt is turning our citizens into slaves of America and the IMF. In the midst of it all, Imran Khan mocks us by talking of Naya Pakistan.”

He said the PTI-led government is on its last legs. “We will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Replying to a query regarding government allegations that students from various seminaries are brought to July 25 rally in Peshawar, Fazl said it is actually the government that is using media as a propaganda tool.

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“The media had no problems when university and college students took part in Imran Khan’s sit-in in Islamabad. Are seminary students not Pakistanis? Do they not have the right to protest and vote?”

On the government’s accountability drive, the JUI-F chief said targeting of political opponents amounted to victimisation and not accountability. “What is happening in the country will increase political chaos in Pakistan while eroding people’s trust in the drive.”