KOHAT, Oct 8: The local leaders of Jamiat e Ulema Islam (F), while vehemently criticising the government for putting their leader Maulana Fazl ur Rehman under house arrest, have vowed to continue their resistance movement against the US and its allies who want to attack Afghanistan to topple Taliban government for completing their agenda in the predominantly Muslim region.

They said thousands of mujahideen were already ready to join Taliban forces in Afghanistan and stop President Musharraf from allowing the US forces to launch an attack from the soil of Pakistan. They questioned the so-called solidarity call of the government, which meant maligning of the religious organisations, halt any aid to them, closure of seminaries in an independent Islamic state.

Former JUI MNA Maulana Naimat Ullah, Maulana Aziz ur Rehman of Kohat and Maulana Abdullah and Maulana Amin of Hangu in their joint statement issued immediately after receiving the news that Maulana Fazl ur Rehman had been put under house arrest in his native town of Dera Ismail Khan for indefinite period, alleged that President Muhsrraf had done so to weaken the Defence of Pakistan and Afghanistan movement during which the nefarious designs of the rulers and the west were being exposed in the successful rallies.

They said that the government was afraid of the religious leaders who wanted to save the Muslims from the exploitation by the US in the name of War against Terror.

They warned that the US wanted to establish its rule in the region that was why it was taking the whole world into confidence before going the whole hog with its agenda because in the past it attacked Afghanistan and Sudan without the consent of the world leaders.