July 07, 2008	Monday	Rajab 3, 1429

QUETTA, July 6: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has called upon the government to honour the commitment it had made to his party and stop military operations in Fata and Balochistan.

Addressing a public meeting in Qila Saifullah on Sunday, he said that political differences should be resolved through dialogue because use of force would have serious repercussions which would not be in the country’s interest.

Balochistan’s senior minister Maulana Abdul Wasay, JUI-F general secretary Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and provincial Amir Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani also spoke on the occasion.

Maulana Fazl said that his party had joined the PPP-led coalition government on the understanding that military actions in Waziristan, Khyber and Bajaur agencies and Balochistan would be stopped, but the continuing violence was creating complications for the JUI-F.

Criticising the government’s policy of using army against its own people in tribal areas to protect the interest of the United States, he said that the US and its allies could not suppress the religious movement struggling for enforcement of Islamic laws.

The JUI leader said that ‘religious extremism’ and ‘war on terror’ were terms coined by Washington to continue its exploitation of resources of the Muslim world.

He said that Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Kashmir were being slaughtered under the global economic policy of the United States to control the Muslim world.