Days after the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) aided the coalition government in passing the 26th Constitutional Amendment, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the leader of the party, said that “a very dirty draft” would have been adopted had his party not supported the amendment.
“We had only eight votes,” he told reporters in Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday. A very filthy proposal that was unacceptable to the opposition parties would have been passed without our backing.
He emphasized that 11 votes were obtained by the government to approve the constitutional amendment, and he said that these votes were “purchased.”
“By staying in opposition, we are able to pass this amendment,” Fazl remarked.
He said that because of their situation, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) did not participate in the election, saying, “However,
