Opponents of peace talks would gain from the recent terror surge, says JUI-F chief.
Condemning the terrorist attack in the walled city, second in a week’s time, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the anti-peace talks elements would gain from the chaos prevalent after the recent terrorist activities.
“K-P government is trying to hide itself behind the excuse of delay in peace talks with Taliban and is not fulfilling its responsibility of providing security to the people,” said Fazl. “If you are not capable of meeting the people’s everyday security requirements, then resign,” the JUI-F chief advised the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) led coalition government in the province.
In a statement made through his spokesperson Jan Achakzai, Fazl said the forces that wanted to sabotage the process of peace talks with Taliban and were not supporting the idea are involved in such terrorist activities. They were deliberately aiming the soft target to pressure the federal government to change its mind on its decision of talking peace with the militants, Fazl was quoted as saying.
JUI-F chief said the K-P government recently removed multiple checkpoints established at the entry and exit routes in the city of Peshawar which has allowed the terrorists to operate freely. Also, the law enforcement agencies were not getting clear directions from the provincial government on maintaining the law and order in the provincial capital, he added.
“Under such circumstances, the federal government should not leave the K-P province on the mercy of PTI government,” said Fazl asking the government in centre to take steps on its own.
The JUI-F chief said the government must act quickly to materialise the process of peace talks with the Taliban as it was decided in the All Parties’ Conference. “Otherwise, it would be too late.”
Achakzai said the JUI-F chief condemned the attack. He said no religion allows the killing of innocent people. However, he said the environment of uncertainty that follows such terrorist attacks would only benefit the elements that were against the peace talks.
He demanded the provincial government to speed up the process of relief and rehabilitation for the blast victims.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2013.
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Whenever i comments something against the failure of nawaz govt. ET never posted that. Yesterday i posted a comment in detail on this maulana and nawaz govt. but ET as usual showed their biasness in the name of moderation. Even though there was nothing abusive in my comments. At the same time, i assure you, if someone will comment the same about IK which i did y'day, ET will post it without any hesitation.
If I may correctly remember IK's statement made before the elections that if he fails to deliver on his promises he would rather quit and sit in the opposition benches. Fazl is also totally right in stating that removal of security posts has made Peshawar vulnerable to terrorist attacks who are now dictating terms to federal govt besides killing hundreds of innocents. After this total collapse of govt machinery, PTI should simply resign on its promise made to the people.
@Ch. Allah Daad: Please don't blindly support any one who is against PTI. they might be worse than the party you support.
@Ch. Allah Daad: grow up
fazl is absolutely right !
He says this as if he made KPK a model province in his time. He only cares about his own power and nothing else.
He is right. PTI should resign.
Its unfortunate that Fazl is more intelligent and wiser than Imran Khan.
why because you are not in power. what have you delivered to KPK. your majority support is from fata areas and got failed to deliver what you were asked. its been hardly five months that the came in power and it takes time to clean what you and teammates have done with KPK