PESHAWAR, Jan 18: Maulvi Mohammad Sadiq, a Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam MNA, from Bajaur agency has denied the reports that some foreign ‘guests’ were present on the night between Jan 12 and 13 in Damadola village when US jets fired missiles.

“There are no foreign terrorists in Bajaur agency and all such reports are white lies and those killed in the missile attacks were local innocent men, women and children,” Maulavi Sadiq told a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday.

Maulvi Sadiq along with provincial leaders of the JUI and some 15 Malaks, tribal elders of the agency, condemned the attack on peaceful residents of the area. Maulvi Sadiq said that he was quite sure that all reports about the presence of foreigners in a house in Damadola village last Friday were false.

A statement issued by the political administrator of Bajaur agency on Tuesday said that at least four to five foreign elements had been killed in the missile attack on Damadola village on the night between Jan 12 and Jan 13. But their bodies were immediately removed by their companions in order to suppress the actual reason of the attack, an initial report of a joint investigation team had said.

Maulvi Sadiq asked the government to end diplomatic ties with the United States which had committed an act of terrorism in Bajaur agency in its so-called “war against terrorism”. He said that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz should have cancelled his visit to the US as a protest.

Maulvi Sadiq and other tribal elders expressed their concern over the incapability of the Pakistan Army to defend its border with Afghanistan against foreign aggression. The military government should resign on its failure to defend its people and its borders.

Maulvi Sadiq who had just returned from Saudi Arabia after performing Haj said that he would register his protest against the US attack on the floor of the National Assembly.

The JUI would hold a protest rally on Sunday in Inayat Killay of Bajaur agency on the killing of innocent people.