CHARSADDA, Jan 21: Leader of opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that Muslim rulers had become tools of the United States and were being used by Washington to implement its anti-Islam agenda.

Speaking at an ulema convention held at the Subhan Khor

in Shabqadar here on Sunday, he said the US was pursuing policies against Islam and Muslims in order to redraw the world map according to its wishes.

The US was out to destroy the image of Muslims by branding jihad as terrorism, he said, adding that the Pakistani rulers toed the American line to prolong their own rule.

The anti-Islam forces had divided the Ummah in extremist, moderate and enlightened groups and now they were trying to redraw the world map according to their wishes, he claimed.

Maulana Fazl said the US had threatened the Pakistani rulers with geographical division of the land so that to force them to work on their agenda.

He said that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government got passed the Hasba Bill from the NWFP Assembly in the light of the directives of the Council of Islamic Ideology, but the federal government filed a reference against the law to show their animosity to Islam and please their foreign masters.

He said that no differences existed in the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, adding that the alliance would put up a tough fight against supporter of the US and the West.

Speaking on the occasion, NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani said that the federal government was blocking all efforts of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal to provide speedy and cheap justice to the people of the province.

He blamed the federal government for the worsening law and order situation in tribal areas.

He also criticised policies of the federal government.