PESHAWAR, Oct 30: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani has said that provincial Senior Minister Sirajul Haq’s resignation has nothing to do with the air strike on a seminary in Bajaur Agency in which over 80 students and teachers were killed.

Talking to journalists in the corridors of NWFP Assembly on Monday, the chief minister said it was the Jamaat-i-Islami’s decision to replace Mr Haq with someone else and confine Mr Haq to party affairs.

On Sunday at Frontier House, Mr Durrani said, he discussed the matter with JI chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and sought his opinion on the resignation of Mr Haq. He said that according to Mr Qazi, it was his party’s decision to relieve the JI provincial chief, Mr Haq, from the ministry.

The chief minister said the JI would soon give him names of its two nominees to be inducted into the cabinet.

Answering a question, he condemned air strike on a seminary in Bajaur and termed it a cruel and callous act. He said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal was opposed to use of force in the tribal areas.

He said they would favour conclusion of accords in tribal areas on the pattern of the North Waziristan peace agreement.