‘War’ against government will only end after its fall, says Fazlur Rehman – Pakistan

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman compared his next Saturday & # 39; Azadi & # 39; March to a "war", which said "it would only end when the government falls."

"The whole country will be our war zone," he told reporters at a press conference in Peshawar.

The JUI-F leader has announced that he will take a long march against the government on October 27 that will culminate in the capital, where the party plans to hold a sit-in.

"Our strategy will not remain stagnant. We will continue to change it to address [any] situation, "he said. He insisted that a" flood of people from all over the country "would join the march and the" false rulers will drown in it like a straw. "

When asked if he had been able to get support from other opposition parties, he said he "hopes to see them" on the march. He added that since all opposition parties agreed that last year's general elections were "false" and that a re-election should take place, they should all be "on the same page and on the same stage."

Both PPP and PML-N, the two main opposition parties, have not committed themselves to the issue of participation in the march. The PML-N had urged Rehman to delay the march, while PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had said yesterday that he would hold a party meeting to decide "to what extent [they] can help "Rehman.

The PPP had expressed its reluctance to participate in the anti-government movement due to the inclusion of the issues of blasphemy and Namoos-i-Risalat laws in its agenda. In addition, both the PPP and the PML-N had also opposed the idea of ​​holding an indefinite sitting, as did the PTI in 2014.

Rehman, in his press talk today, said that although he was not afraid of being arrested, such a measure would fan the protesters' anger against the government.

In response to a question about the government's claim that the head of the JUI-F was "using" children studying at seminars against the government, Rehman claimed that the rulers were trying to deny students their democratic right.

In addition, he said, the proportion of seminary students would be minimal, since people from all walks of life joined the march.

A PTI leader had told him Dawn that Prime Minister Imran Khan, during a meeting yesterday, had lamented that Rehman was using innocent sons of mothers against the government, but he [JUI-F chief] He should realize that after the victory of the government's position on the Kashmir issue at the session of the recently held General Assembly of the United Nations, the "religious card" could not explode.

"By addressing the issue of motherssah, you (the government) want to get international support," Rehman said today.

"The awards that you (prime minister) distributed among the seminary students were an attempt to counter us, but it was in vain."

He urged the "establishment, the bureaucracy and the police not to support this illegitimate government and distance itself from it."

"We have declared our policy. We do not want to collide with the institutions, we want to respect them.

"But if the institutions adopt a policy of clash with people, then, if these institutions suffer damage in the future, whose fault will it be?"

When asked if he thought the "selectors" were disappointed with the current government, Rehman said: "That would be in accordance with human nature. Our institutions should be tired and disappointed. […] but I am surprised that even after such obvious failures and crises (the institutions) insist that they will support this government. "

The head of JUI-F denied that there was any similarity between the sit-ins made by the now ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Tahirul Qadri of Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Khadim Rizvi of Pakistan Awh Tehreek and Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan. for the "independence" of the public.

He was visibly upset when asked if the party was collecting donations for his departure and said: "Why wouldn't we? It's our right, where else will we get money? Why is there so much noise about this?

"We are not being funded by any western country. We are asking our workers, friends."

Anti-Semitic attack

Rehman, during his press conference, also criticized the government's plan for educational reforms in the country after launching an anti-Semitic attack against prominent investor and billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

He claimed that the "agenda" of the government was "to make Pakistan's education system subordinate to the West."

"We know who it is [Prime Minister Imran] he met in New York, "said Rehman."[He met] George Soros, who runs an NGO and distributes funds throughout the world with the objective of carrying out educational reforms. Upon meeting that infamous Jew, [the government] He has made it clear that they do not want to introduce reforms in religious education. They want to make Pakistan's education system subordinate to the West. "

Rehman accused the prime minister of meeting people who "conspire against other countries."

"They [the government] Befriend those conspirators, who are Jews, and then tell us they want to reform the education system, "he said.

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The government's main spokesman, Firdous Ashiq Awan, in response, called the head of the JUI-F for constantly abusing his position as a man of (religious) knowledge and now he will realize that "he will receive support from nowhere" .

"On the one hand, you have a prime minister who feels the pain of the 22 million people (220 million) in the country and is determined to rescue them from these difficult times and, on the other, you have a tired and restless man from being away from the house number 22 where he used to live: Fazlur Rehman.

"I will not call him Maulana because that is a term used to guard knowledge. And all he has done is use that knowledge for his own person and for his own benefit."

"He has always used the politics of profit, and with hypocrisy and blackmail, he used religion as a shield," said Awan.

She talked about how, according to the prime minister's vision, for the first time in the country's history, Madressah's reforms were incorporated into the National Action Plan.

"Those children who were always used as a religious card, and supported as shields, instead received computers and armed with the benefits of a uniform educational system linked to the latest technology that will be in line with all quality educational systems that others children had benefited from

"Now, because these children are linked to the vision of the prime minister and are partners in the progress in the human development index we want to see, those who always thought they were the guardians of Islam, using the religious card to make their way into the government banks, now they go beyond that mission. "

Referring to Rehman, he said that "those people" are now in cohorts with two parties that are being investigated by the National Office of Responsibility (NAB), face multiple charges and are serving their sentences. She commented that the jailed leadership, in turn, was "hidden behind the maulana and shooting the government. "

"When Kashmir has become a flash point instead of embalming your wounds maulana sahib has decided to launch a useless and inappropriate campaign, "he said.

She said that at the time that Pakistan is supporting and when the prime minister is working hard to project a strong and economically stable image for the world, the head of the JUI-F was spreading chaos and propaganda in order to benefit to yours. I.

"You undertook this campaign to speak on behalf of the people, this is not the narrative of the country or its pain. It is your own pain to stay away from the power that does not let you rest in peace."

"The government is very aware of all your tricks […] You have initiated this donation campaign and of which you are very proud.

"Those who wish to use children for deliveries of Rs100, the government has them linked."

"Now, neither will you get support on a religious platform nor will people sacrifice themselves in any way to your wishes," said Awan, stating: "We will counter all your blows, with the support of the people."