Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F
(JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that it was very well understood who is being addressed when the word “establishment” is used.
“This is not an issue, the media has made it an issue,” he said while responding to a question during a press conference in Islamabad.
Rehman, who is also the chief of the 11-party opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement, had convened a meeting of the heads of the alliance’s constituent parties to review the prevailing political situation in the country earlier Sunday. “We respect the country’s institutions, but if the names of politicians can be taken […] then the name of someone belonging to the country’s institutions can also be taken. This is not a crime.”He added that some were respectful while others were more pragmatic in this regard, before refusing to take more questions on the issue. Rehman’s comments came days after PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he was “shocked” when he heard PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s speech during the PDM’s first rally in Gujranwala in which Nawaz named the country’s top military leadership for orchestrating his ouster among other things.
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