KOHAT, Jan 22: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that the present military set-up has made Pakistan a puppet in the hands of US establishment. Speaking at a ceremony in Karak on the occasion of certificate distribution at a seminary on Sunday, he said that the military set-up was the major hurdle in implementation of Shariah in the country.

Qazi Hussain lamented that the US interference in Pakistan’s affairs had become so open and intense that the people were not safe even in their homes, seminaries and mosques. “So much so that the US whose own society was plagued with corruption, immorality and all sorts of vices, had been allowed to prepare syllabus for the schools in Pakistan,” he said.

He said unfortunately President Gen Pervez Musharraf had made the country a frontline state in the US-led war on terror, but the Americans were not hesitating to bomb its residential areas and kill women and children.

He criticized the United States for killing 18 civilians in the Bajaur Agency and described the ongoing military operation in North and South Waziristan agencies as a massacre of Muslims.

While alleging that the US and Pakistani generals had a common agenda of making the country a secular state, he urged the masses to support religious parties in ousting President Musharraf from power.

He donated Rs50,000 for the Maftahul Ulooom, a seminary in the Karak district.