PESHAWAR, Nov 4: Qari Abdullah, provincial deputy chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, has urged his party workers to stage a rebellion against the US puppets, who are manoeuvring to replace the Taliban with the US agents.

Speaking to a protest rally of JUI workers at the Kabuli Chowk in Qissa Khwani Bazar here on Sunday, he said that they would not make any request for the release of party chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, instead they would follow the path of freedom fighters who had compelled the British forces 53 years ago to quit India.

He said: “We are followers of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Hussain Ahmed Madni, Maulana Abdur Rahim Popalzai and Haji Sahib Turangzai, who struggled against the British imperialism in India and got freedom”. The JUI was the successor of the valiant Ulema and it would not submit to the US imperialism, he added.

All the rulers in the Gulf, he said, were puppet of the US and acting against the wishes of their people. Hosni Mubarak and Shah Fahd were slaves of America, but their people were not US slaves, he added.

He said: “The US and its allies are attacking on tolerance, our traditions, religion and religious places. Their missiles are being fired on civilian population and the rulers say that Ulema don’t understand Islam”.

This (NWFP) was a land of freedom fighters like Haji Sahib of Turangzai, Abdur Rahim Popalzai and Faqir Ippi and no US agent could subjugate supporters of the Taliban, he added.

He said Gen Pervez Musharraf was with the aggressor Americans and the people of Pakistan were with the Taliban.

JUI deputy secretary Jalil Jan asked the traders, shopkeepers and transporters to observe a day-long successful strike on Nov 9 and express their solidarity with the victims of US terrorism.

He warned the NWFP government to stay away from their peaceful protest and strike, otherwise the government would be the target of their protest movement.

All the religious parties had decided to observe a countrywide strike on Nov 9 against the continuing bombing on Afghanistan and a mark of solidarity with the Taliban militia, he added.

JUI provincial chief Maulana Amanullah, Amir Nawaz Khan and leaders of the JUI also spoke.

Earlier, they spoke to a protest meeting, held in Masjid Qasim Ali Khan and later they took out a procession which turned into a rally after passing through Qissa Khwani Bazar.