ISLAMABAD: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman announced on Wednesday that the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) will boycott the upcoming by-elections of national and provincial assemblies and instead launch a protest movement against “massive rigging” in the general elections on February 8 starting from Balochistan on April 25.
The Maulana stated in a party-released video message on social media, “The letter of the six judges of the Islamabad High Court to the Chief Justice of Pakistan has confirmed my party’s position that this parliament is the representative of the ‘establishment’ and not elected by the people.”
The leader of JUI-F stated that he had previously disapproved of the polling results from February 8 and gave the reason that voters had been duped in the general elections of 2018 and 2024.
He said that this year’s election had “killed, not just stolen” people’s ability to vote and that his party would not be accepting the outcome.
Reveals the schedule for the public meetings in Peshawar, Karachi, and Pishin
According to him, the JUI-F chose to go to the people since the current parliament was more of an establishment representation than a body that represented the people.
“People must be united and given faith in the masses in order for them to understand the value of voting.”
On April 25, Maulana Fazl announced that his party would start the nationwide protest campaign in Pishin.
Referring to the public gatherings as “people’s assemblies,” he said that following the JUI-F’s demonstration of strength in Pishin, there would be another People’s Assembly on May 2 in Karachi, where members from all over Sindh would congregate.
A week later, the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would come together for a power show organized by the JUI-F in Peshawar to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the current political system.
He added that because the officers of the Pakistani Election Commission were unable to prepare the results in time, they were “helpless.”
He said that the judiciary and civil administration were being meddled in.
