Senior politician Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani on Tuesday announced the separation of JUI-Pakistan from Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F days after the latter expelled the former, alongside Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, over controversial statements.
“We have inherited politics from great leaders,” said Maulana Sherani, a former chairperson of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), in a press conference here in the federal capital.
“Fazlur Rehman formed his own group called the JUI,” he said, clarifying that neither he nor his followers were ever a part of the JUI-F or the faction created by Fazlur Rehman, who now also leads the Opposition parties’ anti-government coalition under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) banner.
“We have always been and will always remain a member in accordance with the constitution of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam,” Sherani stressed.
The former CII boss underlined that none of the JUI-P’s members would ever take any action against the teachings of Qur’an and Sunnah and that his companions needed to make their own decisions as to “whether to please God or to follow their own desires”.
“What is happening now is devoid of truth and honesty,” he said, slamming Fazlur Rehman for whatever transpired between the party’s members.
“We have inherited politics from the great leaders [but] these members are no longer members of this party,” he added.
No political worker would be pressured under the party’s discipline, Sherani underscored. “God’s curse is on liars and traitors.”
