...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
-Fazl (JUI-F) chief
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 ...
on Wednesday expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
over 'innocents' being killed during Pak security forces'
In a statement issued to the media, he said that his party was not in favour of a military offensive and vowed to oppose it in the future as well.
Earlier, Maulana Samiul Haq
...the
Godfather of the Taliban,leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as
Mullah Sandwichfor his habit of having two young boys at a time...
, who is also chief of his own faction of the religious Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S) party had said that he would no longer act as a government-backed peace broker with the turbans after
"Killings of innocents and exodus of civilians after the
"What criteria are adopted to ascertain who is a terrorist and who is not," he inquired.
The air strikes in the North Waziristan and Khyber tribal
regions on Tuesday were an apparent retaliation for two major Taliban attacks on military targets in as many days. But security officials said the strikes were carried out on the basis of intelligence reports.Assailing the government for its failure to come up with a clear stance on the issue, Fazlur Rehman said that people of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) were being "sandwiched" from all directions.
The JUI-F chief said that his party would not accept the policy of targeting civilian population in the name operations against Talibs.
He clarified that his party was neither in favour of the operation nor will it endorse such an action in the future.