PESHAWAR, Nov 8: Pakistan-Afghanistan Defance Council chief Maulana Sami-ul-Haq has urged transporters, shopkeepers and traders to observe a complete strike on Friday to express solidarity with the Taliban in their war against infidels.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, he said that their strike had nothing to do with the political situation in Pakistan.

Instead, he said, it was being observed to condemn the US aggression on Afghanistan and mark solidarity with helpless Afghans, braving the cruelty of the infidels.

He asked the people of Pakistan to support the Taliban in the war against infidels. “The rulers are siding with infidels and it has become the duty of Muslims to support the Taliban,” Maulana Sami observed.

The DPAC chief warned that if the government resorted to violence against the peaceful protesters on Friday the movement would be turned against the Pakistan government.

The nation, he said, should dissociate itself from the cruel and shameful policy of the rulers by observing a complete strike on Friday. The business community should sacrifice its one day’s earning and close their businesses for their Afghan brethren, he added.

He lamented that the people in the European countries and even in the US were free to express their views freely, but the Pakistan government was denying the same democratic right to its people.

The government, he said, must stay away from their peaceful protest, otherwise it would face the wrath of the people.