KARAK: Serious differences have surfaced in the ranks of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F as the local chapter of its central executive committee has expressed no confidence in the person of district general secretary Maulana Zahoor Ahmad.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the committee members, including Mufti Kifaytullah, Maulana Mohammad Khan Qasmi and Qari Mohammad Aslam, alleged that the district general secretary was undermining the party’s cause in Karak.

They said that the elements violating the party discipline and damaging its cause would be removed from the party.

They accused Zahoor Ahmad of spoiling the party’s reputation in the district, saying that they had already submitted their vote of no confidence against him with the district vice-president Qari Jehanzeb and provincial general secretary Maulana Shujaul Mulk.

The JUI-F leaders insisted that they had the support of 311 members of the executive council out of 496. They resolved to work according to the party’s manifesto and take every step to strengthen it in the district.

Meanwhile, two people were injured when an oil tanker and a bus of the Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak, collided on the Indus Highway in Speena area on Monday.

Police said that the bus was carrying the university staff from Peshawar to Karak when the oil tanker hit it. As a result of the collision, the oil tanker overturned, injuring two people. The injured were shifted to the district headquarters hospital, Karak, where doctors said they were in stable condition.

The Banda Daud Shah police registered a case and began investigations.

Published in Dawn, December 1st, 2015