NEW YORK: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has sought support from the US ambassador in Pakistan in 2007 to assume the office of Prime Ministership, leaked US diplomatic cables said Wednesday.
The latest tranche of memos were obtained by whistleblower site WikiLeaks and reported by The New York Times and The Guardian.
As the Wikileaks saga continues to gather steam, disclosing a lot of secret chapters about Pakistan, very serious question marks have been raised on the moral integrity of country’s politicians – Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman and Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif.
The data which laid bare American diplomatic cables revealed that Pakistan’s religious leader and chief of his own faction of JUI had hosted a banquet in the honour of then US envoy Anne W. Peterson in 2007 and sought US support for his election as Prime Minister.
The reports say he also signaled to the US officials that his faction’s members in National Assembly “are for sale if he was given support to be elected as Prime Minister”.
The WikiLeaks also laid bare Nawaz Sharif. According to the data, the PML-N chief has time and again said he was a strong supporter of United States and its policies.
The two-time former prime minister has also thanked the US envoy for backing Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaque Pervez Kayani as army chief.
It said the Sharif family has also employed army and other institutions for its political strength in the country.
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