Re: JUI (Fazlur Rehman) MPs may not resign, fears APDM
The wind has been further knocked out of the sails of the grand opposition by the statement made by chief minister NWFP, Mr Akram Khan Durrani that he completely agreed with the Maulana that no precipitate action with regard to resignations should be taken. Mr Durrani said his chief was a careful man who did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past and was walking cautiously (phoonk-phoonk kar). It was interesting to note that he made his statement after a meeting with the Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi who was in Peshawar to condole the murder of the JUI cleric Maulana Hassan Jan.
Re: JUI (Fazlur Rehman) MPs may not resign, fears APDM
It is becoming clear that Maulana Diesel has no plans to resign his parties seats to stop Musharraf’s re-election. Like the ARD this will leave the APDM a dead alliance.
RIYADH, Sept 23: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman says he will present his point of view at the APDM meeting in Peshawar on Tuesday so that appropriate decisions are taken keeping in view the ground realities. He said he was confident a consensus decision would be taken at the meeting. The Maulana told Dawn that he had already summoned a JUI-F meeting on Monday to formulate his party’s strategy, before the APDM’s Peshawar meeting. However, he cautioned that in the enthusiasm for the struggle for democracy one should not push the country towards another martial law.** “I am striving to make my colleagues understand that we need to adopt a middle path, rather than extreme positions. Breakdown of institutions could lead to chaos and hurt the short- and long-term interests of the country. It may also encourage non-democratic forces to get in”**. He stressed that all decisions within his own party and within the APDM should be taken unanimously. “Politics should not reach the level of enmity. Rather than insisting on extreme positions, political forces need to adopt a political approach – reach out to the masses during elections, and expose the wrongdoings of the government and political foes. We should let the people decide.”