Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) NWFP chief Sirajul Haq has asked the government to stop military operation in Swat and Dir. Speaking at a news conference here on Wednesday, Siraj lamented that the government was ready to hold talks with India, Afghanistan and America, but did not do so with its own people.
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He said the army men involved in fighting in tribal areas and Swat must be called back and assigned to work for the rehabilitation of flood affectees in Peshawar. The JI leader criticised the government for, what he described, a failure to reach to the calamity-hit people. He said the floods affected nearly 30,000 families. The villages of Regi, Hasan Garhi, Shahi Bala, Budhni, Babu Garhi, Patwar Bala, Patwar Payan, Sardar Garhi, Larama, Qazi Kalay, Alaf Khan Kalay and Khurasan were the worst-affected areas where people were in dire need of assistance, said the JI leader.
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