{"id":21644,"date":"2026-04-24T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21644"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:20:19","slug":"time-has-come-to-defend-constitution-18th-amendment-and-provincial-autonomy-says-maulana-fazlur-rehman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21644","title":{"rendered":"Time Has Come to Defend Constitution, 18th Amendment and Provincial Autonomy, Says Maulana Fazlur Rehman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dera Ghazi Khan: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has stated that it has become essential to defend the Constitution, the 18th Amendment, and provincial autonomy, and that strong efforts will be made to safeguard these principles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after offering condolences to the family of former Punjab Governor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, he said that the protest against inflation and load shedding has not been canceled but postponed, as focus is now being directed toward protecting constitutional and provincial rights.<\/p>\n<p>Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that while there is talk of upholding the Constitution, on the other hand, Parliament has been reduced to a rubber stamp, which goes against democratic values.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the 18th Amendment, provincial autonomy, and the NFC Award are the rightful entitlements of the provinces, but attempts are being made to alter them, warning that if such efforts continue, discussions about dividing provinces may also emerge.<\/p>\n<p>He added that law and order is a provincial matter, and if any province requires assistance, it can seek help from the federation under the Constitution, but using this as a basis to push for constitutional amendments amounts to political pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dera Ghazi Khan: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has stated that it has become essential to defend the Constitution, the 18th Amendment, and provincial autonomy, and that strong efforts will be made to safeguard these principles. Speaking to the media after offering condolences to the family of former Punjab Governor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[9662,7962,855,5953,9299,9663],"class_list":["post-21644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-18th-amendment","tag-constitution-of-pakistan","tag-maulana-fazlur-rehman","tag-nfc-award","tag-political-statement","tag-provincial-autonomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21646,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644\/revisions\/21646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}