Fazl blames establishment, landlords, industrialists for country’s woes

NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman said on Thursday that the civil and military establishments, landlords and industrialists had occupied the country’s politics due to which the people did not enjoy fruits of true independence.

“Pakistan came into existence in the name of Islam 75 years ago but the establishment, bureaucracy, landlords and industrialists have always created hurdles in the way of enforcing religion in the country,” he said while inaugurating a mass contact drive for the upcoming general election slated for February 8, 2024 and Toofan-e-Al-Aqsa campaign here.

JUIF leader and former minister Liaqat Khattak presided over the meeting while provincial chief Maulana Attaur Rahman, former chief minister Akram Durrani, Attaul Haq Darvesh, Qari Aslam and others attended the meeting.

Maulana Fazl said former prime minister Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith had said in a tweet that they had family relations with Israel.

“I had predicted that Imran Khan was an agent of Jews but people would make a mockery of my claim, though my prediction now proved correct,” he said, alleging the establishment gave Imran the government through backdoors.

Fazl said that he had never accepted Imran Khan as prime minister as he had been given the government through rigging and he had openly informed the establishment.

He said Pakistan was the only Muslim country having an atomic bomb but still fear was haunting us. “The nuclear bomb is for our protection but our establishment is compelled to take care of the security of atomic bomb,” he added.

The JUIF chief said that human rights were not safe while the courts were not dispensing justice and the rulers had toed the line of superpowers.

He said that Israel had set new examples of barbarism in Gaza by bombing innocent Palestinian children, women and men but the Muslim leaders were only issuing verbal condemnation and lip-service.

He urged the leaders of Muslim countries to devise a joint strategy against the atrocities of Israel to stop the ongoing war and find a viable solution to the issue once and for all.