Dawn Staff Reporter + Dawn TV
KARACHI: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), claimed that external factors also played an important role in the February 8 election results, adding that his party did not have a real mandate from the establishment. Given because the US was angry about his party’s links with the Palestinian group Hamas and the Afghan Taliban.
On Thursday, Fazlur Rahman accused the military establishment of always bowing to US priorities, saying they were only punished for standing with the people of Palestine and bringing Afghanistan and Pakistan closer together, Dawn newspaper reported.
Addressing a large rally called Awami Assembly in Karachi, he said that it was my crime that I supported Hamas.
