TIMERGARA, Oct 27: Secret agencies were involved in violence in Swat and the government should withdraw forces from the Malakand region, said the provincial amir of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, on Saturday.

Addressing a public rally in Chakdara, Maulana Naseeb said the Malakand division was a peaceful region but the government and its secret agencies had turned it into a battlefield.

Accusing the government of toeing the American agenda, he condemned militants for attacking girls schools and music shops.

He claimed that the people involved in bombings were neither jihadis nor good Muslims but were products of government agencies.

Terming the Frontier caretaker government powerless, he said that all powers were being exercised by the federal government.

He said the recent incidents in Swat were part of a campaign to defame ulema and the Taliban.

He challenged the government to produce foreign militants before the people and said if there was any foreign militant in the area, local people would themselves hand them over to the government.

The rally was organised by the Adenzai chapter of the JUI-F and was attended by JUI’s tehsil amir Maulana Habibun Nabi, Maulana Gul Rahim and Maulana Bashir Ahmad.