Anyone killed in US drone attacks is a martyr: Fazlur Rehman

September 13th, 2009 LAHORE - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman has challenged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that it could not have succeeded in trying former President General Pervez Musharraf even if it was in power. Rehman said his party supported Musharraf's trial under Article Six of the Constitution, but underlined that in the present circumstances, it was not condusive.

August 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the US to provide drone technology to Pakistan, a media report said. He also demanded an end to the US drone attacks inside Pakistan.

August 10th, 2009 WANA - Militant commander Hakeemullah Mehsud said that no scuffle occurred between him and Waliur Rehman. Talking to Geo News, Hakeemullah said he is quite safe, hale and hearty.

August 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A delegation of elders of the Mehsud tribe of South Waziristan has arrived in Islamabad in an effort to persuade the Pakistan Government to stop military action against the people of their area. The 45-member jirga led by Senator Saleh Shah has met several leaders, including JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi and parliamentarians from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

August 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a suspected US drone strike in northwestern Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal agency, TV channels reported Wednesday. TV reports said the drone hit the house of Akramuddin, father-in-law of Mehsud, killing four people and injuring two others.

July 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has urged the US to halt its drone attacks in the country, a media report said Wednesday. In an interview with a private TV Channel, Malik said all the parliamentarians and the entire nation have condemned the attacks.

July 22nd, 2009 PARIS - Pakistan has once again slammed the United States for the continued drone attacks on the 'lawless' tribal region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. In an interview to a French television channel, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik said the whole country is against the drone strikes which has killed more civilians than the extremists.

July 12th, 2009 LONDON - : Claiming that no top Al-Qaeda leader is present inside its territory, Pakistan has termed the continuous US drones attacks in its 'lawless' tribal areas along the Afghanistan border as 'futile'. The Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik, has claimed that neither bin Laden nor any 'big fish' of Al-Qaeda were present in Pakistan.

June 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Wednesday said it was in regular contact with the US to stop the drone attacks that killed dozens of people in the country, Geo TV said. Pakistan's foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said: "It has been Islamabad's consistent position that (US) drone attacks are a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and must be stopped." "Pakistan's own law enforcement operations are proceedings satisfactorily and the nation's determination to eliminate the scourge of terrorism remains unshakable," the spokesman said.

June 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least five people were killed Thursday when missiles fired from a suspected US drone landed close to them in northwest Pakistan, TV reports said. Dawn TV said the drone fired four missiles in the Shahalam area of South Waziristan, and one of the missiles hit a militants' training camp.

June 13th, 2009 LAHORE - The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, who himself has apparently been involved in a number terrorist attacks, has condemned Friday's suicide attacks on a mosque in Lahore in which Pakistan's top religious scholar, Dr Sarfraz Naeemi Al-Azhari was killed. In an apparent bid to gain public sympathy and represent himself as a humanitarian leader, Saeed denounced the terrorist attack, terming it as an 'inhumane' and 'un-Islamic' act.

June 8th, 2009 KARACHI - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has proposed a regional summit that would require Pakistan, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and India to participate and discuss the future course of action in the Swat Valley. "Pakistan, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, India and other countries of the region should meet at a summit to discuss regional interests," The Nation quoted him, as saying.

May 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least eight persons were killed and seven others injured in a suspected U.S. drone strike at Sararogha area in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on Saturday, The News reported.

April 21st, 2009 LAHORE - Pak-Taliban chief Sufi Muhammad's Islamic ideology and Sharia implementation in Swat are incorrect, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said. The News quoted Rehman, as saying that the procedure for enforcing Sharia in Swat was not correct and the recommendations of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) should be implemented in this regard.

April 20th, 2009 LANDIKOTAL - The Jamaat-e-Islami has threatened to disrupt supplies to the NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan, if the United States continues with drone attacks in Pakistan's Tribal Areas. The warning was issued at a JeI public meeting, during which the participants took out a rally against drone strikes, the military operation in FATA, and the country's cooperation with the US in its war on terror.