ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Ijaz Ahmed Shah has said that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman won’t come to the federal capital to stage sit-in.
Shah, during a media talk here today, said that this will be an act of suicide to block Islamabad and forcibly enter the red zone as it was sensitive area.
“The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F chief ‘hopefully’ will not march with his followers towards Islamabad,” the interior minister said.
Azadi March: JUI-F asks for Islamabad’s permission
Earlier today, Senator Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, senior leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F), through his counsel had submitted an application yesterday (8th of Oct.) to the Chief Commissioner here formally asking permission to hold a march (popularly dubbed as Azadi March) scheduled to be held on 27th of Oct. at D Chowk.
In the application JUI-F has stated that the party would be holding the Azadi March on 27th October, 2019 at D-Chowk, Islamabad, exercising its democratic and Constitutional right under Articles 16 and 17 of the Constitution against the incumbent government. Security arrangements for the participants have also been sought.
It is pertinent to mention here that last week Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman had announced about commencing Azadi March against the current government on 27th of October. Though JUI-F is daily negotiating with PPP-P and PML-N about possibility of their joining the march, no decision has yet been taken by both the major opposition parties whether or not to join them.
According to Maulana Fazl-ul-Haq all opposition parties had rejected the elections held on 25th of July, 2018 and called for holding elections. He claimed that in order to raise awareness among the citoyens JUI-F and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal had already organized fifteen ‘million marches’ so far.
Maulana Fazl-ul-Haq informed that JUI-F had decided to express complete solidarity with Kashmiris on 27th October when the Azadi March will commence here. Maulana obviously was responding to government’s argument that since 27th day of October was observed by Kashmiris all over the globe as Black Day, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman should rethink about the Day of March.
Claiming that they were not ones to disperse easily Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman held that would be an Azadi March in which groups of people from all over the country would embark on this journey which would culminate in Islamabad where they would send the government packing.
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