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'Take off uniform and contest elections': Pakistani MP's open challenge to its military

Pakistani politician and chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, delivered a blistering critique of Pakistan's military and government, accusing them of failing to maintain order in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan while warning that the country's Pashtun regions were "drowning in blood."

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"The country is falling apart. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today, there is no government. After the sun sets in the west, until the sun rises in the morning, the police do not step out of their stations. And if the police do not come out of their stations, then the streets will be handed over to armed groups, then the streets and roads will be at the mercy of bandits," Fazl said during a rally Punjab, Pakistan.

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