ISLAMABAD: The recently expelled leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) announced the separation of JUI-Pakistan from Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F days after the latter expelled the former 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 in the federal capital.
The disgruntled leader further said, “Fazlur Rehman formed his own group called the JUI,” clarifying that neither he nor his followers were ever a part of the JUI-F. “We have always been and will always remain a member in accordance with the constitution of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam,” Sherani stressed.
Maulana Sherani underlined that none of the JUI-P’s members would ever take any action against the Islamic teachings 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. God’s curse is on liars and traitors,” Maulana Sherani concluded.
