PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-iIslam-Fazl has accused the provincial government of creating hurdles to the preparations for its three-day international conference, starting from April 7 at Azakhel in Nowshera district.

Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, JUI-F Peshawar district chief Maulana Khairul Bashar said that the administration had removed all of its banners displayed in connection with the event and termed it a conspiracy against the congregation.

Flanked by JUI-F leaders MaulanaAmanullah Haqqani, Ghulam Ali and Maulana Abdul Jalil Jan, he said that the ongoing preparations for the conference hadscaredthe provincial government which was making conspiracies so that it would not succeed.

He said that such tactics would not succeed as the people loved JUI-F for its stand on different issues.

He asked the of ficials concerned to immediately reinstall the signboards and panaflex banners and warned that the party would take extreme steps if the government did not reinstall the banners.

Maulana Bashar said that preparations for the three-day international conference in Azakhel were in the final stages.

In this regard, he added that posters, hoardings and panaflex banners were displayed in various areas of the city, but the district administration was removing them on the pretext that the boards could fall on peopleduring rains and windstorm.

He asserted that they had tried to resolve the matter through dialogue, but the provincial government turned a deaf ear to their concerns. He alleged that PTI was following a Jewish agenda.

Maulana Bashar said that eminent religious scholars, including Imam-iKa`aba, would participate in the conference.

He said that the conference was aimed at uniting the Muslim Ummah on a single platform.

He said that the moot would highlight the role of JUI-F in preaching Islamic teachings. He said that there was no room for secularism and liberalism in the country.

Ghulam Ali said that the provincial government would be unable to obscure the growing popularity of JUI-F in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by removing the banners. He claimed that PTI`s popularity graph was declining with each passing day.