PTI wins JUI-S support on several issues
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Samiul Haq on Sunday assured support to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on a number of issues.
The development came after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and PTI provincial leader, Shah Farman, visited Akora Khattak where he had a marathon meeting with central deputy secretary of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami and former Member National Assembly Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani and the party’s provincial head Maulana Syed Yousaf Shah.
The minister conveyed the goodwill message of PTI Chairman Imran Khan to the head of JUI-S Maulana Samiul Haq. He said Imran Khan believed the federal government had not made the right decision by not inviting Maulana Samiul Haq and Sheikh Rashid Ahmad to the All Parties Conference. He added that Maulana Samiul Haq had played a positive and significant role on all such important occasions.
Shah Farman appealed to the JUI-S leadership to cooperate with the PTI in the by-election on NA-5, NA-20 and NA-25 where voting at the women polling stations would be held.Maulana Hamidul Haq and Maulana Yousaf Shah assured support to the PTI candidates in the remaining polling stations in the by-elections.
The upcoming local government elections were also discussed in the meeting. It was decided that both the parties would carry out a consultation process with their respective leadership on the issue and a final decision would be made soon.
The provincial minister said PTI still adhered to the slogans and principles it had before the elections, adding the KP government wanted a negotiated solution to all issues. Peace cannot be brought about by force as negotiations provided solution to all complicated issues.
He appealed to Maulana Samiul Haq to fully support the PTI-led government to steer the province out of its difficulties.The minister said the PTI government could not even think of appointing any non-Muslim to important government positions. “We will seek the guidance of Ulema on all issues,” he stressed.
Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani and Maulana Syed Yousaf Shah said that it was astonishing that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had invited to the All Parties Conference the nationalists and other forces who ridiculed the Afghan jihad, Ulema, religious students and seminaries and predicted that the APC would be a failure.
PTI wins JUI-S support on several issues - thenews.com.pk
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