ISLAMABAD, June 14: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf on Thursday alleged that the United States was using the threat of Al Qaeda to pursue its worldwide political agenda.

PTI Spokesman Akbar S. Babar, in a statement, criticized the statement of United States Defence Secretary Rumsfeld before leaving New Delhi for Islamabad alleging the presence of Al Qaeda elements along the Line of Control.

He said the military government should explain to the people why its “allies” in the war on terrorism had strategically allied themselves with the country’s enemy.

At the time of offering “unstinted” support to the US, the nation was told that Pakistan’s strategic interests in Kashmir and its nuclear deterrent would be protected, he said.

It now seemed clear that after attaining its immediate objectives in Afghanistan, the US was reverting to its strategy of using India to force Pakistan into making strategic compromises, the PTI leader said.

Rumsfeld must tell the world when the US special forces would land in Northern Ireland to deal with state organised terrorism there, he asked.

In Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army, militant wing of Sinn Fein, had sustained a terror campaign with the support of the Republic of Ireland and the US, he said and added that most of the funds for the IRA were raised in the US.

Babar said that the government must draw a line beyond which it should never compromise.