KHAR Jan 19: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) has condemned the militants’ activities in the tribal areas and said that some elements wanted to create lawlessness and terrorise the local people.

Speaking at a conference in Khar, Bajaur Agency, on Thursday the JUI-F leaders said that their party would continue a peaceful struggle for implementation of the Shariah law. They rejected the recent Fata reforms and demanded of the government to abolish the Frontier Crimes Regulation.

Senators Gul Naseeb and Abdur Rashid, former MNAs Mohammad Qasim and Mohammad Sadiq and other party leaders spoke at the function.

On this occasion, Mr Naseeb claimed that the party was struggling for implementation of Islamic laws in the country through ballot. He said that the JUI-F had never supported those elements who tried to impose the Islamic law by force.

The Senator said that bad governance was major issue of the country and the ruling parties had broken records of corruption. He said that Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government had brought financial discipline and improved governance in the province. He said that the province had made record progress under the MMA.

Mr Naseeb said that the JUI-F would sweep the next general elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.