report in The Express Tribune, December 18th, 2023.
KATLANG: Lashing out at those silent over the atrocities being faced by the Palestinian people, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday maintained that international organisations, including the UN, were controlling Pakistan’s politics.
“International human rights organisations make our decisions, rendering our own Constitution and laws ineffective,” Fazl said while addressing an event in the Babuzai area of Katlang tehsil in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan district.
The JUI-F chief regretted that country’s economy was being “controlled by the World Bank and its defence was bound by international agreements.
“Pakistan has a nuclear bomb, but does not have the authority to use it,” he added.
Fazl said if a madrassa teacher hit a student, human rights leaders raised much hue and cry but everyone was silent on the cruelty in Palestine.
“The world is watching the genocide of Palestinian people,” he continued.
“The entire humanity is ashamed of what the Zionist forces are doing to the Palestinians. The UN Security Council and the human rights organisations have all failed them,” he lamented.
The Maulana pledged to thwart every “conspiracy” against the madrassas. He added that whatever they had learnt in the madrassas, they would stand by those teachings and continue to do so.
Fazl claimed that their elders had rendered sacrifices for the country but now they were being subjected to character assassination. The JUI-F chief maintained that 75 years had passed since Pakistan was created in the name of kalima, but today’s Muslim rulers were unable to understand its meaning.
The Maulana claimed that foreign agents were committing blasphemy in this country and its freedom was at stake.
“Our politics and economy are under pressure,” he added. The JUI-F chief said his party was the guarantor of the protection of human rights and committed to the country’s economic recovery. He concluded by saying that his party did not believe in “gun politics”.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2450372/global-bodies-controlling-countrys-politics-fazl
