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| JUI-F lawmakers demand halt to action in Kala Dhaka |
| 2010-05-12 |
| [The News (Pak) Top Stories] Elected representatives of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) from Mansehra have asked the government to stop military action in the area forthwith. Addressing press conference on Monday, member National Assembly Laiq Muhammad Khan and Mufti Kifayatullah, member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, said Kala Dhaka was a peaceful area. They said there was no terrorist in the area and the government was launching military action for the sake of US dollars. The lawmakers said arrest of two militants identified as Saqib and Waqar in the Bakaryal was no justification for launching what they said was a military action in Kala Dhaka. They said Interior Minister Rahman Malik and Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti had promised that there would be no military operation in the area but that promise was not honoured. The legislators said the government had constituted a 25-member jirga to help hand over wanted persons to the government. They said despite the assurances, the government had launched military action in the area, which was a cause of concern. They said that most of the Kala Dhaka people were working in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and other big cities and any untoward incident could create problems for the government. The JUI-F leaders said there was acute scarcity of commodities due to indefinite curfew in the area and the residents were on the verge of starvation. They said the JUI-F fully supported the movement for creation of a Hazara province and flayed the renaming of the province as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. |
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