PESHAWAR - Criticizing both federal and provincial governments for raiding religious seminaries, JUI-F yesterday announced that it would strongly resist, if this practice is not stopped immediately.
“Raiding seminaries meant to please the West. Any action against madaris will be resisted,” JUI-F provincial Ameer Maulana Naseeb Gul said this while addressing a press conference after presiding over KP and FATA Majlisi Shura’s two-day meeting held here at the provincial headquarters of the party.
He said that on one side, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is defending religious seminaries on the floor of the house, while on the other interior ministry, provincial home department and police are frequently arresting Ulema and students by conducting raids on madaris, which is regrettable.
He said that the JUI-F’s policy of reconciliation should not be considered as “our weakness”. Keeping in view the prevailing situation, the meeting decided to mobilize workers. In the first phase, workers conventions would be organized at each union council in the month of January and February be followed by ‘human rights protection conference’ in March 2016.
In the final phase, Tahafuz-e-Madaris Conference would also be held at provincial level in May, in which future course of action would be drawn, if the government did not stop raids on seminaries, the JUI-F provincial ameer said.
He asked the PTI provincial government not to push JUI-F’s affiliated elected nazims and councillors to the wall, adding that the provincial government has failed on all fronts. He said that party workers should accelerate their movement against the un-constitutional steps being taken by the PTI government in the province.
Criticizing the government for poor law and order situation, Maulana Gul Naseeb demanded of the government to ensure protection of lives and properties of the people of the province. He said that JUI-F was with the APS victims and that is why it was backing all the demands being made by the APS martyrs families.
About the future status of FATA, he said that no decision should be imposed on tribal people in this regard.