ISLAMABAD - Agitated over the government's failure to track down the culprits of suicide attack on Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl(JUI-F) decided to hold countrywide protests to record their concern over the indifference of both federal and provincial governments toward the issue.
Giving details about the protest programme, JUI-F Secretary General Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri regretted the sorry state of affairs where both the federal and provincial governments failed to even take the party leadership into confidence about the investigation into the suicide attack on Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Quetta on Oct. 23.
Giving details about the elaborate protest programme Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, who is also State Minister for Postal Services, said that on December 5 party would hold protest rallies in all the four provincial capitals, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. On December 19 protest demonstrations would be held at district level all over the country while on January 16 protest demonstrations would be organised at provincial, district and Tehsil headquarters level.
Again on January 30 protest demonstrations would be organised all over the country while on February 27 a grand demonstration would be organised in the federal capital while party activists from all over the country would participate.
Responding to a question, Haideri said that though there was no plan of staging sit-in in the federal capital but the possibility of the same could not be ruled out because it would also depend on the reaction of the government toward their genuine demand of tracking down the culprits of suicide attack on their party chief.
Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri said that in non of the three failed suicide attacks on Maulana Fazlur Rehman culprits were brought to justice, nor the conspiracy against their party chief was exposed by the authorities concerned. Criticising both the federal and Balochistan governments for not tracking down the culprits of Quetta suicide attack on Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the JUI-F Secretary General said that they had adopted restraint but the indifference of both the governments had forced them to take this extreme step.
To a question, he said that they had recorded their concern to the prime minister about the authorities' indifference toward the incident and would soon be meeting the Premier again in this connection.
To a question, he said that Federal Interior Ministry had failed to satisfy them on the investigation into the matter while there was no policy statement coming from government on the issue while Balochistan government was also keeping mum over the issue.