Maulana Fazlur RehmanDeobandi holy man, known as
Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
has said that America should change its foreign policy if it wants to eliminate terrorism from the world.
"America is not sincere in eradicating terrorism. Its anti-Mohammedan policies promote terrorism instead of eliminating it," he told a gathering of party workers here on Sunday.
He said that hundreds of thousands of innocent Mohammedans had been killed across the world since the US launched its war against terrorism after 9/11.
"If America wants to uproot terrorism it should revisit its foreign policy and stop genocide of Mohammedans in garb of war against terrorism," he said.
Mr Rehman said that neither he nor his party and Pak people were against the people of America. The anti-American sentiments in Pakistain and around the world were result of the policy of the US government, he added.
He said that JUI-F was a big hurdle in the way of those political parties that wanted to make Pakistain a secular state. "Owing to our struggle in the parliament and streets, the so-called liberal political parties cannot accomplish their agenda to turn the
country into a secular state," Mr Rehman claimed.
Besides other local leaders of JUI-F, former senator Syed Hadayatullah Shah was also present on the occasion.