SHIKARPUR: Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, general secretary of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), has reacted angrily to federal minister Fawad Chaudhry’s statements against the party head Maulana Fazlur Rahman and demanded the government take action against the minister, otherwise, the party will launch a countrywide movement against him.

He said at a hurriedly-called press conference at Shikarpur Press Club on Monday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government teetered on a thin majority and faced constant threat of crumbling.

PTI government depended on the members who had sided with dictators Gen Pervez Musharraf, Gen Ziaul Haq, PML-N and PPP for their vested interests and were now with Imran. They preferred improving their personal lifestyle instead of bettering the fate of people, he said.

He said that he saw no future for Imran Khan as he created more problems for people than resolving their grievances.

He said that PTI government was not sincere with people and Imran had hoodwinked people with his unrealistic promises of providing 10 million jobs to the jobless youth and building five million homes for the poor. No such scheme had been implemented so far, he said.

He said that people were facing problems of price hike and shrinking of livelihood because the government had failed to control inflation of essential commodities and raised prices of petrol, gas and electricity which had resulted in creating many other problems.

He said the national financial institutions had been dealt serious blows due to poor financial schemes of present government and wrong advice given by its inexperienced allies, which had proved harmful for the profit-earning institutions.

He said the government was privatising institutions and approaching friends and neighbours with a begging bowl in hand to seek financial assistance because of sheer inefficiency of Imran’s government.

The maulana said that JUI-F had organised numerous peaceful “million marches” at various places for the restoration of democracy and supremacy of law because the party believed in peace and law and order in the country and struggled against harmful measures against democratic, constitutional and moral values in the larger interest of the country and nation.

JUI-F wanted to uproot corruption culture from the country but opposed political victimisation of opposition parties which could create hatred and resentment among the masses, he said.

He alleged that Imran had come to power “fraudulently” after committing large-scale rigging in general election with the support of Election Commission of Pakistan. The JUI-F and other democratic political parties, therefore, demanded the ruling party, its partners as well as present election commission resign in the larger interest of stability of constitutional democratic system in the country, he said.

He said in answer to a question that JUI-F, PML-N and PPP were on one page on organising a ‘Million March’ against the present “undemocratic” government very soon. His party would participate in the movement against rollback of 18th Amendment if needed, he said.

The maulana was accompanied by Hafiz Abdul Malik Brohi, Syed Waliullah Shah Amroti, Haji Nisar Ahmed Memon, Maulana Taib Mekho at the press conference.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2019