Fazl's protest damaging for Kashmir cause, says Shaukat Yousafzai.

PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai said on Monday that the protest by Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman is damaging for the Kashmir cause. "You are trying to create a situation of a sit-in or march, which at the time is causing a huge damage to Pakistan, " Yousafzai said in a statement. "Since the time Maulana Fazlur Rehman spoke of a sit-in or march, the Kashmir issue has been overshadowed on the media. " He urged the JUI-F chief to have "mercy on this country and the Kashmiri people". The KP information minister further said that Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has also formed a committee on the provincial level to hold talks with the opposition parties.

The JUI-F has been preparing to march towards Islamabad later this month, aiming to topple Prime Minister Imran Khan's government. The march will...

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