PESHAWAR, Oct 18: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Mohmand Agency leaders issued a decree against the entry of journalists hailing from the US and European nations in the agency area on Thursday.

Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq, JUI Mohmand Agency chief, issued the decree, urging his party workers to forcibly stop the entry of Americans and Europeans posing themselves newsmen.

JUI activists told Dawn that they would not tolerate presence of any American or European national in the agency.

“We will shoot them, if they come here”, said Samiullah.

The JUI workers also stopped a vehicle carrying UNHCR staff in the area. They observed a sit-in on the road and didn’t allow the UNHCR staff, searching for new sites to be developed as refugee camps in the tribal areas. Later when the political authorities explained them about the working of the UNHCR, they allowed them to visit their agency.

Qari Samiullah, in charge of the Darul Aloom Islamia, Mohmand Agency, said they had set up relief camps in the area to collect relief goods for Taliban. The general people were donating them jewellry, cash, clothes and edible items for the war-hit Afghans and refugees, he added.

He said they (JUI workers) had sealed off the entry points on the Northern Alliance people who used this area for the shipment of weapons into Nangarhar and Kunar provinces.

“We will not allow anti-Taliban people to operate through their area,” he added.