Salman lays bare JUI-F's anarchic strategy.

Lahore -- Former lawmaker from Mananwala Ali Salman Siddique has taken a swipe at Maulana Fazlur Rahman, chief of the factional split from a religious party, for 'pushing the country towards anarchy without any plausible reason in utter disregard to national interest'.

Since the 1980s, Fazl has been enjoying the support of a factional split from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam established in 1945. Entirely based in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Balochistan, the Fazl faction of JUI emerged as the 5th largest party winning 3.2% of the popular vote in the National Assembly.

'Fazl has been pushing the country towards anarchy, chaos and lawlessness through agitation and protest without any plausible reason to further his power centric personal agenda, in utter disregard to national interest,' Ali Salman said while talking to a delegation of notables in Sheikhupura on Sunday.

According to a press release, former PTI district president Kanwar Imran Saeed led the delegation to the meeting with Ali Salman .

'Maulana should better come up with some cogent demand and should come to table for resolution of the same. Ali said that the so called Azadi March was a manifestation of personal interests of Maulana who was finding it hard to survive without the perks and privileges that he had become accustomed to enjoy over the years. He remained Chairman Kashmir committee for decades altogether without any contribution towards the Kashmir cause whatsoever. Now that 27th October is to be observed as a Black Day for highlighting the atrocities meted out in Kashmir by India, Maulana is hell bent to damage the Kashmir cause of by announcing to hold his so called march on the same day...

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