Tribal leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami from Bajuar Agency while slamming the restoration of Nato supply route to US alliance troops in Afghanistan, has announced that it will strongly resist against the government move by holding rallies and protest demonstration in Jumrud, Khyber agency and Peshawar on July 17.
Addressing at press conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, Former MNA and JI Ameer from Bajaur Agency, Sahibzada Haroon-ul-Rasheed said the government decision was contrary to parliament recommendations about the resumption of Nato supplies.
He further said that after the reopening of supply to Nato-allied forces, drone strikes were intensified in the tribal region, killing innocent people.
Following the persistent situation of tribal areas and the growing US drone attacks, he said JI had decided to stage sit-in and to hold rallies and protest demonstrations on July 17.
JI Ameer alleged that the government had disgraced the sanctity of parliament after reopening of Nato supply routes, adding that US didn't follow the recommendations of parliamentary committee about the matter.
He said Pakistan had suffered huge financial losses, and losses of precious lives in the war against terrorism to appease the foreign mentors.
Former MNA said the war was brought massive scale infrastructural damages, including education institutions and hampering sectoral development in the province. Despite the protests, he said that drone attacks were not stopped at tribal areas.
He criticised that the present coalition government was following footsteps of the a former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf (retd), saying the country sovereignty and integrity on stake due to the growing US intervention in this region.