Veteran politician and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman has met leading Islamic scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani and exchanged views on atrocities being committed by Israel on defenceless Palestinians in Gaza.

A spokesperson for the JUI-F said that the two leaders also discussed fundraising for the victims of Israel’s aggression.

He said that the two leaders particularly expressed their concern over the food shortage and lack of medical facilities in the devastated Gaza.

He added that shifting of injured Palestinian children from Gaza for medical treatment in Pakistan was also discussed in the meeting of the two leaders.

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