The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) NWFP chapter on Thursday accused NATO commanders and US advisers of supporting the war in the North Waziristan Agency and asked the government to end military operations in the area.“Military operations must be immediately stopped in North Waziristan, as such operations are very dangerous for Pakistan and the entire region,” former NWFP senior minister and JI NWFP Amir Sirajul Haq told a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club.
To a question, the JI Amir said Pakistani people would fight NATO forces if they tried to enter FATA and also demanded the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan. Criticising President General Pervez Musharraf, Sirajul Haq said war in the tribal belt would not end till he was ousted from power.
US wants Iraq-like situation: He said innocent Muslims were being killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. “America wants to create an Iraq-like situation in Pakistan and wants to disintegrate it. In Waziristan, innocent tribesmen are being killed through a planned agenda,” he said, adding that the military operation had turned into a fierce war.
Siraj said the JI Bannu chapter had set up relief camps for all those people who had migrated from the North Waziristan Agency to Bannu and other adjacent areas.
Former health minister Inaytullah Khan, former MNA Shabbir Ahmad Khan, JI provincial deputy sectary general Mushtaq Ahmad and provincial information secretary Mohammad Iqbal were also present on the occasion.