TIMERGARA, Jan 5: Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri is a puppet of the establishment and his Jan 14 long march on Islamabad is meant to sabotage the upcoming general elections in the country.

This was stated by provincial Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl general secretary and MNA Maulana Mohammad Qasim at ‘Shiekhul Hind Conference’ in Talash area here on Saturday.

Noted among speakers were JUI leaders Maulana Rahat Hussain, Qazi Fazlullah, Mufti Irfanuddin, Qazi Ayazuddin, Zulfiqar Ali Alum and Maulana Ghulamullah Haqqani, who paid tribute to Shiekhul Hind Maulana Mehmoodul Hassan and his Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, and said students of Maulana Hassan had achieved Pakistan as an independent state.

Hundreds of the JUI-F workers from all over the district attended the conference.

Maulana Qasim said it was the strong opposition of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman in parliament that blocked the passage of homosexuality bill. He said his party not only resisted anti-Islam bills in parliament but also defended the prevalent Islamic laws in the country.

The JUI leader said the rulers didn’t free themselves from the US control though parliament had passed unanimous resolutions for the purpose over the four years.

He said the US policies not religious seminaries and its students had brought terrorism to the region.

Maulana Qasim said 50,000 innocent people had been killed in the war on terrorism.

He said the rulers had failed to deliver by failing to handle power loadshedding, inflation, corruption and unemployment.

He said the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would vote his party to power in the province.

The JUI-F leader, however, said some hidden forces were busy trying to block the way of religious parties to power.

Maulana Rahat Hussain condemned the politics of Jamaat-i-Islami and said his party had never made ideological alliance with it in the past.

“We always allied with Jamaat-i-Islami on common points only. There can be no ideological alliance with it in future, too, because of differences,” he said.

The JUI-F leader said the Constitution didn’t allow secular politics in the country and therefore, his party would ban all such groups from functioning in the country after coming to power.