{"id":8404,"date":"2019-10-15T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/10\/nudged-by-nawaz-party-decides-to-join-jui-f-protest-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T02:03:33","slug":"nudged-by-nawaz-party-decides-to-join-jui-f-protest-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/10\/15\/nudged-by-nawaz-party-decides-to-join-jui-f-protest-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nudged by Nawaz, party decides to join JUI-F protest &#8211; Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/umang.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nudged-by-Nawaz-party-decides-to-join-JUI-F-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LAHORE: Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) on Monday cleared uncertainty about its participation in the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) protest, deciding that the opposition party will join the &amp; # 39; March Azadi &amp; # 39; if it remains a demonstration or becomes a sit-in against the government.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made at another marathon meeting of high-ranking leaders of the PML-N, which was chaired by party president Shahbaz Sharif, a couple of days before his planned meeting with the head of JUI-F, Maulana Fazlur Rehman , to finalize and jointly announce strategy. Shahbaz asked the party leaders at the meeting to mobilize the workers in light of the instructions of the Nawaz Sharif party supreme to participate fully in the &quot;Azadi March&quot; of Maulana on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>A source of PML-N said <em>Dawn<\/em> after the meeting in Model Town that the party had already finalized its protest strategy and delegated duties to the members at provincial and district level in light of the instructions of the former prime minister. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticipants were told that the Azadi March is not a sit-down as Maulana told it, but a public meeting will be held on October 31 in Islamabad. However, in any case [rally or sit-in] the PML-N will have to participate in it with full force, &quot;he said, adding that the party president had ordered the participants to prepare and mobilize party workers across the country for a&quot; big show. &quot;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Shujaat suggests Imran to open the door to dialogue<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Nawaz Sharif has clearly mentioned in the letter to Shahbaz Sharif to ensure a great meeting on the march and no excuse will be tolerated in this regard,&quot; the party source said. <\/p>\n<p>He said that although the JUI-F had declared that the Azadi march was a long march that arrived in Islamabad on October 31 and not one sitting for an indefinite period, both the JUI-F and the PML-N in an advisory meeting ( on Sunday) decided to leave this option (sitting) open to decide according to the circumstances. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nawaz Sharif also has in his letter [written from jail] Shahbaz Sharif called for a joint strategy in consultation with the Maualana about the protest plan, leaving open the option of sitting according to the situation, &quot;he added. <\/p>\n<p>According to PML-N spokesman, Marriyum Aurangzeb, the group finalized the strategy in light of the instructions of the supreme party. &quot;Shahbaz Sharif and Maulana Fazl will jointly announce the protest strategy after a meeting on October 16 (Wednesday) in Lahore,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Javed Latif, who also attended the Model Town meeting, said: &quot;Shahbaz Sharif will participate in the march,&quot; eliminating doubts about his reluctance to participate in the protest over his alleged concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The PML-N meeting also condemned the government for the arrest of its supreme leader in Chaudhry Sugar Mills. <\/p>\n<p>He also censured Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government for involving state institutions in controversies, making parliament ineffective by issuing ordinances, weakening the federation, suppressing freedom of expression, media censorship, economic collapse historic and leaving hundreds and thousands of people unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party also condemned the Indian atrocities in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir, asking the world community to press India to pressure India to immediately raise the curfew.<\/p>\n<p>Other participants in the meeting included Rana Tanvir Hussain, Pervaiz Rashid, Ahsen Iqbal, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Abdul Qayyum, Amir Muqam, Mohammad Zubair, Rana Mashhood, Azma Bokhari and Pervaiz Malik.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, a PML-N delegation had delivered the &quot;confidential letter&quot; of the former prime minister and the supreme leader of the party to the head of the JUI-F.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Maulana Fazl said: &quot;The PTI government still has a few days to resign and return home, otherwise we will force it to resign.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>On the letter, the head of the JUI-F said: \u201cWe will disseminate the contents of the letter after developing a consensus among the opposition parties. We have also convened the meeting of our central executive council on October 24 to accommodate the suggestions. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The country will observe October 27 as a black day and JUI-F will observe it as Kashmir solidarity day, after which Azadi&#39;s march will begin to move towards Islamabad.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab government goes into action Amid rising political temperatures, the coalition government in Punjab also began its consultative process in an attempt to deal with the JUI-F anti-government march in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, Prime Minister Usman Buzdar and Governor Chaudhry Sarwar called on the leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and the President of the Punjab Assembly, Pervaiz Elahi, at his residence and discussed the march Azadi of October 31 of Maulana.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Since the Chaudhry brothers have good relations with Maulana Fazl, the coalition partners discussed whether the latter could play a role in convincing him to review his decision,&quot; said a source in the PML-Q, adding that the Gujrat Chaudhrys They said they could go for &quot;if Prime Minister Khan wanted it.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>However, Shujaat suggested that the government &quot;open the door to dialogue&quot; to solve the problems, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, PML-Q Secretary General Kamil Ali Agha said that the Chaudhry brothers enjoyed good relations with Maulana Fazl and that in the past they had solved the problem of the Legal Framework Order (LFO) by taking Maulana in confidence. and the late Qazi Hussain Ahmed. <\/p>\n<p>When asked if the Chaudhry brothers would contact the Maulana, the former senator said: \u201cI have no idea. Chaudhry Shujaat&#39;s health does not allow him to participate in such an activity. However, if Prime Minister Khan requests it, then there is a possibility, \u201dhe added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Posted on Dawn, October 15, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1510886\/nudged-by-nawaz-party-decides-to-join-jui-f-protest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) on Monday cleared uncertainty about its participation in the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) protest, deciding that the opposition party will join the &amp; # 39; March Azadi &amp; # 39; if it remains a demonstration or becomes a sit-in against the government. 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