Judicial commission: Fazl sees bid to bring PTI back to parliament
JUI-F chief says he has 'no enmity with anyone, but polls were rigged in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well'
JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman. PHOTO: NNI
ISLAMABAD:
Days after the government and the protesting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) agreed over the constitution of a judicial commission to probe the alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman on Thursday said the commission was only an effort to bring the PTI back to Parliament.
Speaking to the media after his return from a week-long tour of China, JUI-F chief said the PTI was looking for a reason to return to the assemblies and the government has provided it a perfect opportunity. “However, questions remain over whether the resignations of PTI members were accepted in the first place or not,” he added.
To a question on PTI, he said “I have no enmity with anyone, but polls were rigged in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well.”
Briefing about his visit to China, Fazl said he had a one-point agenda of discussing the Pak-China Economic Corridor route with the high-ups in Beijing. He held negotiations with vice president of China’s national legislature National Peoples Congress, among others.
The JUI-F chief said there were three routes for the economic corridor, a) Karachi to Lahore, b) Gwadar to Rattodero and Islamabad, and c) from Burhan to D I Khan, Zhob and Quetta to Gawadar. “There was an agreement over the third route which crosses from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the north,” Fazl said, adding that an impression was created the construction is not the first priority of Chinese counterparts.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 27th, 2015.
Days after the government and the protesting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) agreed over the constitution of a judicial commission to probe the alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman on Thursday said the commission was only an effort to bring the PTI back to Parliament.
Speaking to the media after his return from a week-long tour of China, JUI-F chief said the PTI was looking for a reason to return to the assemblies and the government has provided it a perfect opportunity. “However, questions remain over whether the resignations of PTI members were accepted in the first place or not,” he added.
To a question on PTI, he said “I have no enmity with anyone, but polls were rigged in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well.”
Briefing about his visit to China, Fazl said he had a one-point agenda of discussing the Pak-China Economic Corridor route with the high-ups in Beijing. He held negotiations with vice president of China’s national legislature National Peoples Congress, among others.
The JUI-F chief said there were three routes for the economic corridor, a) Karachi to Lahore, b) Gwadar to Rattodero and Islamabad, and c) from Burhan to D I Khan, Zhob and Quetta to Gawadar. “There was an agreement over the third route which crosses from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the north,” Fazl said, adding that an impression was created the construction is not the first priority of Chinese counterparts.
“We have asked the Chinese authorities that a 100km section of route which is being deferred should be built on a priority basis,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 27th, 2015.