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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday rejected the results of the February 8 elections, and asked his workers to be ready for peaceful protests across the country.

“The Parliament has lost its importance and democracy is losing its case. It looks like the decisions will now be taken on the streets and not Parliament,” he said.

Rejecting the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) statement in which it declared the polls free and fair, the JUI-F chief said the rigging witnessed during these polls was unprecedented.

He declined Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) offer to join the government coalition, instead invited him to sit with the JUI-F in the opposition.

To a question, Fazl said the JUI-F would play its parliamentary role but would join assemblies with reservations.

He said the JUI-F wanted an assembly that was truly represented by the people, “without the intervention from the establishment”.

Fazl claimed his party was defeated through “unprecedented poll-rigging.”

“Our fault is that we played our role in mending the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and spoke up against Israeli atrocities in Gaza and supported Hamas, which is not acceptable to the US.”

He said if the establishment believed the elections were free and fair, then that means the army’s May 9 statement has been buried.

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HashBrown® Feb 14, 2024 05:42pm
This mischievous mullah had no problem with the manipulation of democracy when he was given the cushy CM role in exchange for supporting Musharraf 20yrs ago, but he always knows what song to sing...
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Johnny Walker Feb 14, 2024 06:00pm
I think it is sour grapes for Maulana.
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zh Feb 14, 2024 10:24pm
Maulana has been played. He craves to the president but PML-N now seems to support AZ. Maulana now has nowhere to go but to languish in isolation.
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zh Feb 14, 2024 10:26pm
Nawaz Sharif has no use for the dejected Maulana he is entirely superfluous.
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Imran s Feb 15, 2024 03:05am
Wat a joke.
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