PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman on Sunday asked the government to sign the seminaries bill, or they would stage a long march towards Islamabad.
“Let me tell you that if we take the decision of launching a march on the federal capital, you won’t be able to stop us. You have already tested our strength,” the JUIF chief told the ‘Israel Murdabad Conference’ here.
He said the seminaries bill was introduced by the government and unanimously passed by both the houses of parliament. “But now the president is showing reluctance to sign it into a law at the behest of certain invisible forces,” he added.
He said that a meeting of Wafaqul Madaris and leaders of all schools of thought of religious seminaries would be held on December 17 where a formal decision would be taken on the government’s ‘fraud’ i.e. not signing the bill. “We will follow the decision of December 17 meeting,” he added.
He said religious seminaries would stay free from government interference. “The structural issues and academic system of the religious seminaries have already been resolved in consultation with the government,” he added. He warned the government to stop “misusing the media against the seminaries and feeding wrong information to anchors”.
Expressing solidarity with Palestinians, Maulana Fazlur Rahman said: “Let me assure in Obwalden canton said. The incident occurred during a large private dinner party in a dome tent at the Giswil campsite. At around 10:30 pm my Palestinian brothers that we are standing side by side with them. We are raising the slogans of ‘Israel Murdabad’ in Pakistan and they are implementing it in Palestine against Israel.”
Palestine belongs to the Palestinian Muslims not the Zionists, he said and criticised the US and the West for supporting the Zionist forces. He said the hands of the US and the West were stained with the blood of humanity. Therefore, they have no right to be called protectors of human rights as they have shed the blood of millions of humans during the world wars and are involved in the massacre of humanity in Palestine.
He said that 50,000 Muslims have been massacred in Palestine during the past 15 months of war and around 75 percent of them were women and children. “This is the most serious crime against humanity for which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu should be hanged,” he said.
The Maulana came down hard on the establishment. He said that Pakistan did not belong to the rulers alone, rather it was the homeland of all the people. “We have been struggling for the survival, protection and stability of the country. It was the establishment that declined the ideology of the country.”
He said the government was representative of the establishment, not the people of the country. The JUIF chief said the government wanted to introduce the 26th constitutional amendment in haste. The draft they had made, if passed, would have undermined everything. But JUI showed resistance and refined the draft into a valuable law, he added.
Addressing the gathering, spokesman for Hamas Dr Naji Zaheer said that the war in Palestine would continue till the elimination of Israel. He said that despite the war on a daily basis since March 15, Israelis were leaving Palestine for other countries, while none of the Palestinian Muslims have left their homeland.
