LAHORE, March 4: Blaming the US for the Quetta incident, the JUI-F claimed that it (the US) was finding excuses to attack Iran and announced that it would raise the issue in parliament.
Briefing reporters after the party's two-day Shoora meeting here on Thursday, secretary-general Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri said the US wanted to divide the Muslims so that they could not show solidarity with Iran, in case of attack on it, like Afghanistan.
He also held local secret agencies partly responsible for the incident, saying that a committee had been formed to probe the incident. Real perpetrators would be exposed after receiving the committee's report and the party would rethink of its alliance with the PML-Q in forming government in Balochistan if connivance of provincial authorities was also found, he added.
The JUI-F leader wondered how the incident took place when the area had been cordoned off two days ago and even the residents could enter or leave it only after proving their identity.
"Quetta was peaceful even when the menace of sectarianism was at its peak in the rest of the country." He alleged that Wana military operation and raids on religious schools were also being conducted to appease foreign masters.
Maulana Haidri claimed that a Wana like operation was also being planned in Balochistan tribal area. He warned the government to avoid creating a 1971-like situation and immediately stop the military operation or face an aggressive movement which, he claimed, would force the incumbent rulers to pack up.
The JUI-F also alleged that the government was promoting nationalist forces (against religious elements) otherwise the people who had abused the Quaid at a recent programme in the federal capital could not have gone scot free.
He also smelled a rat in the return from abroad of ailing nationalist Baloch Sardar, Ataullah Mengal, after around eight years. Maulana Haidri said the PPP and the PML-N were extending support to the incumbent rulers as they had not yet even served notices on the MPs who had left their parties to join the government.
He said a committee had been formed to look into the complaints of JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq. Asked if the JUI-F would launch a movement against the government for its alleged pro-US policies, he said now there would be an open fight against the rulers on Wana operation, raids on religious schools and deteriorating law and order situation.
The party would suggest the MMA, the six-party religious alliance of which the JUI-F is the largest constituent, in its Friday's (today) meeting to adopt an effective strategy both within and outside parliament on these issues, he added.
