PESHAWAR, Sept 23: Former Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that the US push for establishing a relation between the Haqqani network and ISI is a mere drama in order to materialise its plan of attacking Pakistan.

“The United States is planning to launch an attack on Pakistan on the pretext of hot pursuit. The Haqqani network and ISI relation is a mere drama in order to materialise its plan,” Mr Ahmed said in statement issued here on Friday. The JI leader said that the government, Pakistan Army and the entire nation should be ready for any action by the US against Pakistan. He suggested that the government should clearly warn the US that in case of attack Pakistan could use any kinds of weapons for its defence.

The people, he said, still remembered that the US attack on Iraq was launched on the pretext of search for chemical weapons, but no such arms were recovered in the country so far.

He said that the 9/11 was also a drama prepared by the US to attack Afghanistan. He said that thousands of innocent Afghans were killed without any reason.

In his statement, the JI leader referred to a book of a Western journalist, Freidman, wherein he had claimed that the US would attack Pakistan and India would capture a portion of its territory.

“Had the US any interest in elimination of the Haqqani network it will have attacked it in Afghanistan, as it had nothing to do with Pakistan,” he said.

The JI leader disclosed that during his recent meeting in Iran with Afghan leader Burhanuddin Rabbani – who was assassinated a few days ago – he (Rabbani) had said that the Afghan President Hamid Karzai believed that his brother Ahmed Wali Kazai was killed by the US.

“Karzai also feared that the US will kill him and therefore he (Karzai) wished to bring all the political forces, militant groups and the government on a single platform. For this purpose he wanted Pakistan to play an effective role,” Mr Ahmed said.

The JI leader said that they (Qazi and Rabbani) had decided to play this important role for unification of the Afghan nation to bring an end to the atrocities on the Afghan people.