PESHAWAR, Oct 9: Jamaat-i-Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad has expressed concern over the premature retirement of two senior generals in the armed forces, saying that such action was damaging to the military.

Castigating the military regime policies he said that President Pervez Musharraf’s days had been numbered due to his dictatorial attitude and the people would soon come to the streets.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday the JI chief said that instead of taking the nation into confidence the President was trying to appease the US. He said, “Musharraf’s policies are not acceptable to the nation any longer.”

Condemning the US air strikes on Afghanistan he said that like the Soviet Union, the US would meet the same fate in Afghanistan. He said that terrorism could not be eradicated by arresting the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden and bombing the innocent people of Afghanistan, fearing that the arrest of the world most wanted person would plunge the entire region into further crises.

The JI chief said attacks on Afghanistan were based on immorality and the US could not justify its action. Only poor the Afghans would suffer, who were already facing numerous problems, he said.

Holding the US responsible for the current crisis, he said, the Americans were harbouring terrorism in the world, adding that bombing innocent civilians was the worst form of state terrorism.

Replying a query, Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that installation of any US-backed broad-based government in Afghanistan would not be acceptable to Afghan people and would also develop divisions in the Afghan society.

About the ongoing protests against the US attacks of Afghanistan, he said that the present demonstrations were a spontaneous reaction and would be properly mobilized.