Maulana Fazlur Rehman had no other option but to beat the retreat as he was let down terribly by both the PPP and Nawaz League. When he realised that there were not enough people in his sit-in and the weather too was getting cooler by the day he thought it proper to wind up the camps of protesters in Islamabad. It was a difficult decision for him to make but politically shrewd as he is , he declared on 13 th November evening that instead of sitting in the federal capital his followers would now spread in all the four provinces of the country and block the main thoroughfares.
His withdrawal was, to a great extent, akin to the withdrawal of Dr Tahir Ul QuadrI a couple of years back when he too had asked his followers who had assembled for a sit-in in Islamabad to pack up and spread far and wide in the country. It is another matter that when they dispersed they never assembled again. Is the history going to repeat itself? Maulana is a tough nut to crack and he may try to create trouble for the law and order enforcing agencies in those districts where his party enjoys support at the gross roots level. The police and the Rangers as well as the district magistrates would have to show patience in tackling them and ensure that no excesses are committed on them by the police because if , God forbid, there are some casualities the issue can snowball into a really big law and order situation which won’t be easy for the police to control.
The reason why the PPP and Nawaz League as well as other religo -political parties sat out the Islamabad ‘s sit-in was that the leaders of these parties didn’t want that Maulana should become too big for his boots and upstage them in the political arena of the country. There is no love lost between some of them and the JUI (F) leaders.
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