LAHORE, Aug 28: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad has accused JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman of being concerned more about political gains than principles.

In his new book which is to be launched soon, Qazi Hussain says: “Maulana Fazlur Rehman will agree to launch a movement only if he considers it will give him political mileage, though we (the Jamaat) think that we should stand by principles despite difficulties.”

The book, Continuation of Strategy, comprises speeches he made in the party’s central consultative body meetings between 1987 and 2007. Qazi Hussain, however, does not think that Maulana Fazl has gone to the extent of striking some clandestine deal with the government.

“I don’t think that Maulana Fazlur Rehman has some understanding with the government,” he said while talking to Jamaat members.

Qazi Hussain says in the book that the collective thinking of the JUI is to move forward in association with the army ruler and the PML-Q and for that purpose they want to make themselves acceptable.