PESHAWAR, March 13: The FATA leader of National Awami Party Pakistan, Abdullah Jan Safi, has condemned the ban on the movement of tribesmen across the western border and demanded immediate freedom of movement to both sides of the people.

Talking to newsmen at the party central office he warned that if the government did not lift the ban, the tribesmen would block all ways connecting Pakistan with Afghanistan.

He said that tribesmen living on both sides of the Durand Line have deep cultural, linguistic, blood and religious relations with each other and the ban on their trade and free movement was an immense injustice.

He said that on one hand the President Gen Pervez Musharraf was talking of free trade with Afghanistan and other Central Asian states and on the other hand the tribesmen who wanted to go and come back from Afghanistan were not allowed free movement.—PPI