{"id":80048,"date":"2025-04-24T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=80048"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:52:52","slug":"fazl-rules-out-formal-opposition-alliance-keeps-door-open-for-issue-based-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/fazl-rules-out-formal-opposition-alliance-keeps-door-open-for-issue-based-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fazl rules out formal opposition alliance, keeps door open for issue-based cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday ruled out a formal opposition alliance but kept the doors of cooperation open for collaboration on individual issues. \u201cThere is no concept of a formal alliance in the opposition\u2026 that\u2019s typically a feature of the government,\u201d the religio-political leader said while addressing a press conference after his party\u2019s Majlis-e-Shura meeting in Lahore. The JUI-F and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have been holding consultations in recent months to possibly forge an alliance against the government, in the wake of incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s call to his party to strengthen contacts with opposition parties. The rift between the two parties deepened after PTI leader Azam Swati said on April 12 that Imran Khan had tasked him with holding talks with the establishment. Commenting on this, JUI-F Senator Kamran Murtaza said, \u201cIt is unacceptable to expect us to form a political alliance while simultaneously maintaining undisclosed contacts with the establishment.\u201d He criticised the PTI leadership for failing to offer any clarification on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday ruled out a formal opposition alliance but kept the doors of cooperation open for collaboration on individual issues. \u201cThere is no concept of a formal alliance in the opposition\u2026 that\u2019s typically a feature of the government,\u201d the religio-political leader said while addressing a press conference &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80058,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80048\/revisions\/80058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}