It is interesting to note that Maulana Fazlur Rahman is keen to contest the elections with his group of Ulema, all of them with all their might to help Pervez Musharraf to continue as president for another five years.

It is also interesting that the election commission is accepting their nomination papers, though the Ulema have no bachelor’s degrees, a requirement for running in the election. The EC is quite visibly breaking its own rules. It may be noted that the Peshawar High Court had recently disqualified a candidate five years after the filing of the case; right after the NWFP Assembly had been dissolved.
It is sad to note that we will bear these illiterate mullahs for another five years as lawmakers while they are not familiar even with the ABC of law.

It is on record that the Maulana has been insulting judicial activism as he and the King’s party call it, while he is standing by the side of President Musharraf and breaking up from the MMA and the APDM to run in the elections.

It is a dilemma that we accept these people as majority of our illiterate voters have voted for them and the election commission went out of the way to grant a symbol, a book, which they advertise and market as the Holy Book for their own benefit.
It is time we take note of the situation. We in the NWFP had a taste of this failed government for the last five years.