AMN
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) on Friday staged protest rallies in various parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Malakand and Hazara divisions against the alleged election rigging and Supreme Court verdict in a ‘proscribed literature’ case. Pakistan’s apex court recently issued a release order for a person accused of distributing supposedly proscribed religious literature.
The protests in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came almost two weeks after the apex court’s order on an appeal against a verdict of the Lahore High Court. Protest rallies were called by the JUI-F central leadership after Friday prayers, with demonstrations held in Shangla, Lower Dir, Battagram, Buner, and other districts of Hazara and Malakand divisions. Demonstrations were also organised in KP’s merged districts amongst other places. Participants of the rallies raised slogans against the superior judiciary and alleged rigging in the general elections.