Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) Chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman Saturday linked his party's support to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement move for an all parties' roundtable conference, with implementation on the resolutions unanimously passed by the parliament and All Parties' Conference (APC) in the past.
The MQM delegation led by its convenor Dr Farooq Sattar met JUI-F chief in a bid to muster support and also invite him for the moot, the date for which will be announced anytime soon. Sources within JUI-F said Fazl-ur-Rehman told the MQM delegation that an all parties moot would be of no use unless implementation on the previous resolution passed by an APC convened by former Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and the earlier such resolutions unanimously passed by the Parliament.
Later talking to reporters, the JUI-F chief said that the country was facing serious challenges that need to be addressed with national unity. He said he was encouraged by the MQM's initiative to bring all the political forces of the country at a single platform to address the challenges faced by the nation. He stressed the need for implementation on the unanimous resolutions of the parliament and the APC. He also underscored the need for ensuring better working in future for the sake of national integrity. He argued that the challenges currently confronting the nation were because of the pursuance of the 'foreign agenda'.
The JUI-F chief also thanked MQM chief Altaf Hussain for timely calling for the national unity to overcome the challenges, adding that his party together with MQM will ensure implementation on the unanimously passed resolutions. Speaking on the occasion, MQM leader Farooq Sattar said that the challenges currently confronting the country at domestic and international levels could not be resolved by a single party....it needs national unity to cope with them. He said that all the political forces of the country would be invited for the all parties' roundtable conference to be convened by his party.
He said the country needs stability and it needs to dispel the impression of confrontation among the national institutions. "Time has come for all the political parties to sit together and steer the country out of the prevailing crises," he added. The MQM team, which has already met with President Asif Zardari, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Awami National Party (ANP), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, would also meet PML-N and PTI to invite them to the proposed all parties' round conference, MQM sources said.