Shameless Fazal Rehman

JUI-F will participate in the January 8 general elections even if a consensus is developed on 'charter of demands' and Benazir Bhutto announces a boycott, party insiders told The News. "There is no option but to contest the polls irrespective of whatever is the outcome of the CoD committee," JUI-F sources quoted Maulana Fazlur Rehman as telling his party stalwarts just before an eight-member opposition body met consecutively for the second day here. These sources said the JUI-F has to move forward without focusing on the basic question of restoration of deposed jud-ges. "The restoration of the judges can be one of the demands but it cannot be a condition for taking part in the polls," a party source told The News.