KOHAT, Jan 12: The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Kohat region, Zulfiqar Cheema on Saturday urged religious communities to foil the design of anti-Pakistan elements by maintaining unity in their ranks.

Addressing a joint jirga of Shia and Sunni elders here, he asked them to avoid circulating provocative material, raising slogans and delivering speeches which hurt the feelings of other sect.

He informed the jirga that the personnel of Frontier

Corps, army and Frontier Constabulary had been deployed at sensitive places in Kohat and Hangu and an additional 400 policemen had been called for duty during Muharram in Kohat alone.

He said that no one had any right to even utter a word against the Rightly Guided Caliphs.

He said the law and order problem in settled areas was a direct result of developments taking place in tribal areas which needed to be solved with the help of local people.

The elders assured the police chief of their cooperation during Muharram. They said that Pakistan did not belong to one person or sect, it was a gift for all its citizens.

The jirga was attended by Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat chairman Javed Ibraheem, Ittehal Al Bainal Muslimeen chairman Syed Mahtabul Hassan, Tehrik-i-Nafaze Fiqah Jafria central secretary-general Syed Mazhar Ali Shah, caretakers of all 13 imambargahs, elders Amjid Karbalai, Amjid Ali Shah and Moharram Ali Shah, Kohat district amirs of the Jamaat-i-Islami and the JUI-F, Bazaar Union president Sher Ahmed Khan Bangash, leaders of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Kohat Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Manzoor Ahmed, UC

nazims, councillors and candidates for the national and provincial assemblies.