If PM goes home or to jail, Imran will find refuge with in-laws: Fazl

Akram Durrani says those afraid of rats in KP confronting lions;
fragile KP govt to be toppled if PM allows

BANNU: The chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Maulana Fazlur Rehman, on Tuesday said whether the prime minister goes home or to jail, Imran Khan will have to take refuge with his in-laws abroad.

The JUI-F chief alleged that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was brought to power to introduce Western culture in  conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Addressing a gathering at the Sports Complex before the speech of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, he said the JUI-F would oppose the agenda of those people who wanted to secularise and Westernise Pakhtun society.Referring to the Panama Papers issue, the Maulana said revelations about Jehangir Tareen and Aleem Khan had changed the scenario in the country. “Now everyone would be made accountable. Imran Khan would not find a place in Pakistan and would be forced to take refuge with his in-laws abroad,” he said.

Inviting the prime minister to visit his native Dera Ismail Khan, the Maulana asked him to take steps for resolving issues facing the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Waziristan. He added the tribal women who had never stepped out of their homes were forced to live in tents. He pointed out that numerous tribal families had migrated to Afghanistan after the military operation in North Waziristan in 2014. He asked Nawaz to take immediate steps for the repatriation of displaced tribal families from Afghanistan.

The JUI-F head said the southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were the most deprived and neglected in the province since Pakistan’s independence. However, he expressed the hope that the prime minister’s visit to Bannu would end deprivation and exploitation of people of southern part of the province.

Fazl maintained that the PTI-led provincial government was busy in westernisation of KP instead of modernising the province by launching mega development projects. The prime minister visited Bannu on the invitation of Fazlur Rehman.

Meanwhile, former KP chief minister Akram Khan Durrani, while addressing the rally, said that those who were afraid of rats in KP were dreaming of confronting the lions in Punjab.He said if the PM allows, the fragile KP government will be toppled.