New Delhi, July 22: VHP has found a most unlikely ally in its campaign against cow slaughter - Fazal-ur Rahman, chief of Pakistani radical outfit Jamiat-Ulema-Islam. At a meeting with top VHP brass in the capital yesterday, Rahman not only supported a ban on cow slaughter but also agreed to endorse such a move in writing, sources claimed.

During their 50-minute long meeting at a five-star hotel in the heart of the capital, Imtiaz Alam, Lahore-based journalist of Pakistani daily "The News", who assisted Rahman, tried to raise the issue of Babri Masjid demolition, but another delegation member interrupted saying it was "India's internal matter," the sources said.

Rahman, who is currently on a goodwill mission to India, is also believed to have asked the VHP leaders why they were bent upon demolishing mosques to which the Sangh outfit's senior vice-president Giriraj Kishore retorted saying, "why the Muslims were silent when thousands of temples were pulled down and mosques built over them."

Bureau Report