Wants K-P government to issue executive order. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
In the turn of events both Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have announced their support to Imran Khan’s call to block Nato supplies in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa (K-P), the latter with strings attached.
Demanding a fresh All Parties Conference, JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman said, “JUI-F will move a resolution in K-P provincial assembly on Nato supplies but we will support the PTI government if it issues executive order in this regard.”
Fazl said that in the wake of drone attack that killed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud on Friday, a national strategy should be crafted.
The JUI-F chief said that the last APC adopted a national stance towards reconciliation and decided to hold talks with the Taliban.
“The drone attack has now changed the situation, which is why we need a new APC to review the situation. We were trying to get Pakistan out of crisis but the drone attack has increased instability,” said Fazl.
He said that Pakistan Tehreek-Insaaf’s ‘solo flight’ will damage national unity on drones and dialogue with Taliban as such party politics should not be based on point scoring.
He said that his party had earlier tried to move a resolution in K-P assembly on the drone issue linking it with blocking the Nato supplies but the PTI government had opposed it. He said his party’s support for the blockade would be conditional on PTI government issuing an executive order to stop the Nato supplies.
JI chief Munawar Hassan said his party too was with the PTI chief on the blockade of Nato supplies. “We are with Imran Khan but I think all allied parties should sit together and devise a long-term plan to forever stop the Nato supplies,” said the JI chief while speaking to journalists here on Sunday.
He stated that the premier’s announcement on not blocking the Nato supplies had ridiculed his own interior minister’s claim that the government was to review its relations with Washington.
Hassan said that Hakimullah was a martyr and he urged the Taliban to carry forward the talks with the government. “This is the only way to give a strong reply to the US and defeat its plans. The drone strike was in fact an attack on the table of talks,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 4th,2013.
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@Sandip: very interesting !! Not a squeak from them has been heard, except as individuals in talk shows.
@whitesky: You should know Taliban have already declared them as 'enemies' colluding with America.
It is extremely interesting that among all this drama, the one team that set out to defend Pakistan is quiet - Yes the Difa-e-Pakistan team. Interesting, isn't it?
From the outside the enemies of Pakistan are quite obvious...Hassan, fazl, khan, are all trying to get Pakistan to surrender to the TTP/ Taliban?...the same people who have murdered 40 thousand innocent civilians?...the enemy within is in plain sight and even outsiders can see who is working against Pakistan democratic government and who is trying to change Pakistan into a khalifate where the Taliban interpretation of sharia law rules....which will it be Pakistan?..you will have to decide if the mullahs run your country or is it the officials elected by the people control the government policies...
Mehsud was a terrorist and killer not a martyr.Try is being made to make him a martyr.Please be vigilant of these forces, JI, JUI and PTI.As far Nato supplies blockade is concerned we are already self sufficient in suicides.We do not want a mass suicide as a nation.
Fazi is wiser than Imran .
Hakimullah was a great martyr. Pakistan should declare official mourning and this day should be declared as a national holiday. Indeed a great loss for Pakistan.
I have always wondered why the Taliban have never tried to block NATO supplies which would be very easy for them because its a soft target. Perhaps some of their own men are getting benefits out of this supply business.
" Hassan said that Hakimullah was a martyr " - If Hakimullah is a martyr them what term janab Hasan wiil confer on more than forty thousands Pakistani civilians/ soldiers killed by TTP (whose chief was Hakimullah Mehsud) ?
{Hassan said that Hakimullah was a martyr.......}
Is that a misprint or misrepresentation? Incredibly incredible
I can understand the probable negative effect on peace talks due to his welcome but wrongly timed killing but calling a self confessed killer of thousands of civilians and involved in slaughter of scores of captive soldiers a MARTYR is unbelievable from any angle.
He would have been teared apart on National Media in any other country for such brazenly anti state sentiments.
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@Jibran: What a non serious comment on such a serious matter.
Imran, when people like Fazl and Munnawar Hasan are urging you to do something then you should know that it can't be the right thing to do. I hope common sense will prevail.
A better option is to ask NATO to ' give ' the military hardware to Pakistan in exchange for.................and then negotiate a deal keeping Pakistan's interest in mind.
It is a shame that a person who butchered thousands of innocent Pakistanis is called a martyr.
I don't think PTI is doing like that, if it was doing like that then Imran should be on visit to America / UK for personal affairs. When Raymond Davis was released by Govt of Punjab both Nawaz & Shahbaz were in UK.
i guess they forgot we have common men in pakistan.
He wants an executive order, but no majority vote of the parliament. I sense that this guy knows that this will be a mistake and later on he can single out the CM on his executive order rather than the provincial assembly itself where his men also 'reside'.
As you sow, so shall you reap. Whatever shahbaz Sharif did to PPP as the CM, PTI is going to do to pmln. Enjoy it Nawaz.