PESHAWAR, Dec 18: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said Pakistani soil cannot be used for supplying weapons to Nato and US forces in Afghanistan because these weapons are being used for killing innocent people.

Speaking at a rally held at the Suikarno Chowk in the Khyber Bazaar here on Thursday to protest against the supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan, the JI leader said missiles were being fired from drones in the tribal areas, but transporters were not ready to take stand on the killings of their brethren. The transporters, he said, should immediately boycott supplying goods to Nato forces to show the nation that they were united against the non-Muslims forces.

The presence of American forces in Afghanistan, according to him, was a threat to the sensitive atomic installations in Pakistan and it was time that all the people took a unified stand for protection of the country.

He alleged that India had opened 26 consulates in Afghanistan to carry out terrorist activities in parts of Pakistan, saying the people should understand the facts and come forward to join hands in this regard.

Criticising the federal and NWFP governments, the JI leader alleged that the rulers were using the armed forces against own countrymen under the US pressure.

He said Pakistan had come into being on the basis of Islamic ideology, but the rulers were trying to change it into a secularist state.

Expressing concern over the killing of Muslims in different countries, he said the only fault of the people of Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq was their Islamic ideology.

Referring to Pakistan’s constitution, he said it guaranteed justice to people, but the rulers were not ready to implement the Constitution. “How can others expect justice when the Chief Justice of Pakistan (Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry) is denied justice,” he said.

The JI leader also criticised the Awami National Party, alleging that its history was full of conspiracies against the integrity of the country. He claimed that the ANP had no ideology because it had supported the former Soviet Union and was now supporting the Americans for their own benefits.

He also accused the ANP of misusing government funds in the by-election in Buner. Qazi Hussain called upon the government to forthwith stop military operations in Swat, Bajaur, Mohmand and other tribal areas.

JI’s NWFP chapter chief Sirajul Haq accused the ANP-led provincial government of indulging in corruption.

He said thousands of innocent Pakhtuns had been killed in Bajaur, Swat, Mohmand and other areas during the ANP-led government and it shared the blame for it.