Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), on Tuesday demanded the government end the ongoing military operation in the Tribal Areas and Balochistan. “I demand that the military operation be immediately stopped and all political prisoners be freed,” he said while speaking in the National Assembly to felicitate newly elected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Fazl welcomed Gillani’s announcement to release all sacked judges, saying political prisoners should also be set free at the earliest. He announced to fully support the resolution that is to be moved by the PPP to declare the hanging of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto a judicial murder. He said Zulfikar was the architect of the Constitution of 1973. The JUI-F chief said political parties would have to end the sense of deprivation among the provinces.