Local politicians reacted the statement of Jamaat Islami's chief Syed Munawar Hassan and expressed solidarity with Armed forces. Former Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said that Munawar Hassan's remark hurt the armed forces and parents of martyrs. He said that armed forces were doing operation against those who had challenged the writ of the state.
PPP's senior leader Peerzada Abdul Ali Zakir Usmani said that Jamaat Islami had opposed the Pakistan movement and its leadership did not recognise the existence of Pakistan While its founder Abul A'ala Maudoodi had declared the Kashmir crusade as 'Haram.' Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi, a Shia leader said that Taliban was being supported and projected by some religious forces and these Taliban were involved in killing of innocent people irrespective of their sect and religion.
He said that Maulana Fazal-ur-rehman also called the Hakim-ullah Mehsud as Martyr. He said that it is a fact that religious parties that had opposed creation of Pakistan are creating conditions to prove their point that they were right. During Pakistan movement JI and Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind had divergent views about the struggle for separate homeland for Muslims of the sub-continent.