QUETTA - JUI-F Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that there is a direct contest between secular and religious forces in the coming elections.Addressing an ‘Islam Zindabad conference’ in Pishin on Sunday, some 70km from here, he said Akhtar Mengal and his allies were being supported by powerful forces to defeat JUI in the next general elections.The JUI amir said his party would enforce Islam and Sharia if voted to power. He vowed to defeat all anti-Islam forces in the elections and enforce Islamic laws in the country. He said his party was defending the integrity and solidarity of Pakistan by fighting and resisting the anti-Islam forces.“JUI will end the politics of death and destruction in Balochistan if it returns to power,” he averred. He said excesses were being committed to the people of Balochistan for the past 65 years, adding his party would redress all the grievances of the people.He claimed rich mineral wealth of Balochistan had been handed over to outsiders in return for ‘commission’, saying JUI would end politics of commission in Balochistan.“Highway robberies, kidnapping for ransom and target killings continue in Balochistan as usual,” he said, adding JUI would put an end to all these crimes on coming to power in the next elections.Referring to separation of East Pakistan, the JUI amir said highly qualified people and defenders of Pakistan had harmed the country. He asserted no Talib or teacher of seminaries was involved in this dirty game.“Our elders tried to save Pakistan and offered sacrifices for it whereas other forces in power are responsible for harming the country,” he said. He welcomed talks between Taliban and Americans, saying his party supported peace efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Fazl claimed the West was igniting wars and destruction in the region and “we are opposed to this policy of the Western countries. “We have to save our motherland,” the JUI amir told the participants of the big public meeting.He said his party had nominated 70 elders as members of a grand jirga to hold talks for peace in Fata. He claimed only JUI was striving to restore peace to the restive states of Pakistan and Afghanistan.