KOHAT, Nov 1: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal took out a procession here in protest against the Bajaur killings and demanded that the president should step down so that security of the country’s people and the land could be ensured.

The leaders said the government had failed to guard the geographical boundaries of the state and demanded that it should step down after admitting to having killed its own people in cold blood.

The protesters led by Pir Fahim of the Jamaat-i-Islami and Abdul Hayee of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam marched from Tehsil Gate through the city’s main bazaar to Shah Faisal Gate.

The speakers said that due to the so-called policies of moderation of President Pervez Musharraf every bearded man was considered a terrorist in the West.

They condemned the Bajaur incident and said that if the government policy did not change nobody would be safe in his house.

They said the incident would provide an impetus to the movement against the government, which had forgotten its ideological and national responsibilities in its efforts to appease the United States, which was the biggest enemy of Muslims.

Students of Khwaja Khela brought out a procession in Hangu district. They were carrying placards and banners condemning the killing of innocent people in the air attack on a seminary in Bajaur Agency.