NOWSHERA, Dec 3: Pakistan Afghanistan Defence Council has decided to launch a protest movement against the present government after the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr for over its pro- American policy and the killing of civilian population in the US bombing on Afghanistan.

Speaking at a joint meeting of different religious parties here on Monday, PADC provincial president Maulana Amanullah Khan Marwat and NWFP Jamaat-i-Islami, Amir Prof Ibrahim, said that the present rulers bartered the lives of innocent Afghans for dollars by extending support to the US in its military campaign against Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network and the Taliban Islamic government in Afghanistan.

They said that the President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, was as much responsible for the massacres of innocent people in the war- battered Afghanistan as America, Britain and their allied Zionist forces.

Terming the present rulers a security risk for the country, the PADC leaders urged all religious parties and groups to stand united in this critical hour of history for the defence of the country.

They said that a well-organized movement would be launched against the government after the Eid.