{"id":879386,"date":"2019-11-12T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/?p=879386"},"modified":"2022-08-31T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:46:31","slug":"no-end-to-sit-in-till-illegitimate-govt-ousted-maulana-fazlur-rehman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/no-end-to-sit-in-till-illegitimate-govt-ousted-maulana-fazlur-rehman\/","title":{"rendered":"No End to Sit-in Till \u2018Illegitimate\u2019 Govt Ousted: Maulana Fazlur Rehman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_879201\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-879201\" class=\"size-full wp-image-879201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fazlur-rehman-azadimarch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fazlur-rehman-azadimarch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fazlur-rehman-azadimarch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-879201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman. SS Mirza\u2014AFP<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h6>JUIF may soon launch its long-rumored \u2018Plan B\u2019 to force the government\u2019s hand<\/h6>\n<p>The \u2018Azadi March\u2019 dharna will continue until Pakistan is free of the present \u201cillegitimate\u201d government, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUIF) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Monday, as the sit-in continues into its second week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue our struggle till we are free from this illegitimate government,\u201d said the cleric, adding plans were under consideration to further increase the pressure on the government. He said all opposition parties were being consulted on how best to proceed. The entire country stands with the participants of the Azadi March, he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to daily <em>Dawn<\/em>, the JUIF chief has sought the opinion of his party\u2019s provincial cadres to finalize the party\u2019s \u2018Plan B\u2019 for the ongoing sit-in. Rehman reportedly told a meeting of party leaders to brief the central leadership on Tuesday (today) about their preparations for the much-discussed next step of the dharna, which aims to pressure the government by blocking major highways, trade links and shutter-down strikes nationwide. The daily also claimed that Rehman had decided that regardless of the \u2018Plan B,\u2019 the Islamabad dharna would continue.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, which has been supporting the JUIF throughout its Azadi March, meanwhile said the government was not taking negotiations with the opposition seriously. PkMAP leader Usman Kakar told journalists after a meeting with Rehman that government negotiators were not being sincere in their efforts to resolve the sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, during an interview with broadcaster Geo News, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that his party would be willing to accept the \u201cequivalent\u201d of P.M. Khan\u2019s resignation to end its protest. Without offering any more details, the JUIF chief said he did not need to \u201csave face,\u201d adding that it was the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan that had to find a way to maintain its dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Rehman claimed during the interview that the \u2018Azadi March\u2019 dharna had rubbished the prevailing belief that you could not say anything against this government without risking reprisal. The impression that this country is operating only to the benefit of Imran Khan has ended, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUIF may soon launch its long-rumored \u2018Plan B\u2019 to force the government\u2019s hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":879201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[7851,34200,5875,6815,34199,101,568,26039,796,797,23809,10342,4783,673,34201,34042],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fazlur-rehman-azadimarch.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}