KARACHI: Just a day after US drone strike killed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mesud, Pakistan’s grand mufti among several prominent religious scholars and clerics called on government to shut Nato supply and shoot down the US spy planes.
According to local media, President and Vice President of Jaamiyah Darul Uloom Karachi Mufti Mohammad Rafi Usmani and Mufti Mohammad Taqi Usmani, President of Wafaq-ul-Madaris Al-Arabia Maulana Saleemullah Khan, Jaamiyat-ul-Uloom Al-Islamiya Binori Town Maulana Dr Abdul Razzaq Sikandar, Maulana Qari Mohammad Hafeez Jalandhari and others issued joint statement and demanded to government to stop all kinds of cooperation with the United States.
Pakistan was scheduled to send its delegation to North Waziristan to begin peace talks with the Taliban.
“US wants Pakistan to stay war-ravaged at all times, and deliberately carried out Friday’s attack to sabotage peace talks,” they added.
Earlier, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar while addressing a press conference condemned the US drone strike just ahead of the peace talks and said that the attack was not carried out against Hakimullah Mehsud but against the peace efforts. He also announced that the country would review its relation and cooperation with the US.
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