Elections: Jamaat-i-Islami leader calls for alliance with JUI-F

Claims both parties have similar goals and needs.

SHERGARH: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Central Vice President Sirajul Haq, while addressing a gathering of JI activists in Shergarh, Mardan, said his party and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) had the same objectives and needs and should enter an electoral alliance with each other instead of other political parties.

Haq stressed the JI and JUI-F needed to have a seat adjustment because of their common goals. He further said both parties would require each other’s support in parliament in the future, even if they did not need it now.



“Free education, free health, and freedom from cast marriages are my promise to the people,” he claimed, shedding light on the JI’s future goals.

Haq went on to say he would strive to implement Islamic government as done by the four caliphs, adding he would restore the region to peace. The JI leader also urged people to finally rid themselves of corrupt politicians and vote for his party in the upcoming general elections.



Haq claimed hundreds of thousands of people would flock to join the JI before the elections in order to ensure their basic rights, which were not given by the previous government, are provided to them. “We will serve the people, not rule them,” he added.

Local JI leaders Maulana Sultan Muhammad, Fazal Rabbani Advocate, Ali Shan Majboor, Abdul Wasi, Habib Rasool and Fazulullah also addressed party activists.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1^st, 2013.