Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that he condemns the attack on Malala Yousufzai, but who will protest the deaths caused by drone strikes.
Rehman said that Salala and Malala are made a pretext to eliminate a section of society. He blamed the erroneous policies of the government saying they resulted in deaths of over 40,000 people.
“Why is the attack on Malala being exaggerated so much while nobody talks of the lives of 40,000 Pakistani civilians and military personnel?”
Maulana also questioned the motives behind overplaying the Taliban’s role in the attack on the 14-year-old.
“The government and those who support America’s policies are responsible for the attack on Malala,” the chief exclaimed.
The JUI-F chief termed the shootout an act of coercion which has no precedent in the Pakhtun tradition.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 13th, 2012.
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