After quitting the ruling coalition, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has started contacting political forces for bringing about in-house change in the National Assembly.
Talking to Business Recorder, JUI-F spokesman Maulana Amjad Khan said his party has started contacting other political forces - Muttahida Qaumi Movement, another important coalition partner of the ruling Pakistan People's Party with crucial 25 seats in the Lower House of the Parliament and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, second largest but internally fractured opposition party with 52 seats in the National Assembly.
He said JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has convened an emergency meeting of the party's central executive committee on December 22 in Islamabad to chalk out future strategy in view of the prevailing political situation in the backdrop of its separation from the ruling coalition on December 14. He said the JUI-F chief will take the party leaders into confidence on contacts with other political parties.
The JUI-F spokesman claimed that the country was going towards a possible in-house change for which the party has started contacting other political parties as well. Referring to PML-Q's chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's Friday's meeting with Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, he said the meeting was held in the backdrop of the earlier contacts between the two during All Parties Conference on December 15 in which the PML-Q chief expressed solidarity with JUI-F. He said Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain agreed for expanding relationship between the two parties.
To a question, he said no political party wanted mid-term elections in the prevailing situation, adding that an in-house change was the only option to get rid of the corrupt leadership.
Meanwhile, MQM leader Babar Khan Ghauri, who is also Minister for Ports and Shaping on Saturday telephoned JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman and discussed the prevailing political situation. According to JUI-F spokesman, the two leaders agreed to continue contacts in future. While political analysts give less importance to the JUI-F efforts with eight seats in the National Assembly, they are eyeing the crucial meeting of the MQM delegation with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani today (Sunday).
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