Today’s JUI-F public meeting to be public referendum against Sindh government: Rashid Soomro

The public meeting of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), which will be led by its chief Fazlur Rehman, in Karachi on Thursday (today) will be a public referendum against the Sindh government.

Sindh JUI-F Secretary General Rashid Mahmood Soomro said this as he addressed a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. He was accompanied by other leaders of the party.

He termed the February 8 general elections fake and claimed that behind-the-scene forces always made key decisions in this country. He said the JUI-F had rendered sacrifices for the democratic system in the country and its chief had led the people down from the mountains and showed them the way to Parliament.

Soomro claimed that despite all sacrifices, the JUI-F’s mandate was stolen. He said his party won three National Assembly and seven Sindh Assembly seats as per the Form 45 results, but the same seats were given to the Pakistan Peoples Party after tampering with the Form 47. He lamented that the election tribunals were not hearing pleas against election results in a timely manner.

The JUI-F leader also lambasted the Sindh government for the lawlessness in the province stating that tribal disputes, kidnappings for ransom, murders and street crime were on the rise.

He said that whereas the elected assemblies were fake, the real public assembly would be held at the Mazar-e-Quaid today that would be addressed by the JUI-F chief. The Sindh government was afraid of the JUI-F rally, Soomro remarked.

He said the JUI-F’s agitation was based on four-point agenda that was struggling against the mandate theft in the elections, expressing solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians, ensuring that there was no confusion about Khatm-e-Nabuwwat and ending what he said the bandits’ rule in Sindh.