NOWSHERA, April 9: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) Deputy General Secretary Hafiz Hussain Ahmad stressed the need for an independent foreign policy which must safeguard the country’s interests.

He said that the present foreign policy was a continuum of the military regime, so, elected members should work on a new policy.

Talking to newsmen after the JUI’s general council meeting at Darul Aloom Tehseenul Quran on Tuesday , he said that elected bodies should author a new foreign policy.

He said that his party’s first requisition included discussion on foreign policy in the parliament, but the session ended without touching on the subject.

Mr Ahmed said that National Assembly and Senate were policy-making bodies and only those policies should be adopted which were formulated by the elected house.

He said that his party would reject all those pro-American policies and that the leaders of all Muslim countries were puppets in the hands of the West.