MARDAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Maulana Gul Naseeb has dissolved party’s Mardan district cabinet for not fulfilling its responsibilities as per party constitution and announced an interim district cabinet for holding new party elections within two months.

The newly-appointed acting district convener Maulana Israr Salik accompanied by other acting members of the cabinet told a press conference here on Thursday that they were tasked by the JUI-F provincial president to run the party affairs following dissolution of the district cabinet.

He said that according to the party constitution the district cabinet was bound to convene a meeting of the district Majlis-i-Amomi (general council)after every four months, but the Mardan chapter cabinet failed to fulfil its responsibility.

Maulana Salik said that he was bound to hold new elections in the district within two months. He asked the JUI-F local leaders and activists to start preparation for the new intra-party elections.

Later, party’s suspended district president Maulana Amanat Shah told this scribe that he and the other district cabinet members would challenge the decision of Gul Nassem in the party’s central general council. He said that it was sheer injustice as the provincial chief had not followed the party constitution while removing them from their offices. He rejected the allegations levelled against them by the provincial cabinet.

He claimed that he and other members of the district cabinet had fulfilled their responsibilities, adding that they would present record of their activities before the central leadership to decide the matter. He hoped that the decision of the provincial chief would be reversed, as it was based on biased intentions.

Published in Dawn, November 13th, 2015