PESHAWAR, Oct 18: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has condemned the operation against Al Qaeda and Taliban elements in Wana, demanding of the government to stop it immediately.

The demand to end the operation was made at the party’s meeting held here on Saturday under the chairmanship of provincial PML-N Secretary-General and Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) Central Secretary-General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra.

The meeting was attended by provincial PML-N President Pir Sabir Shah, Vice-President Rehmat Salam Khattak and district presidents and secretaries of the party.

Mr Jhagra alleged that the four-year rule of the military dictator, had resulted in immense price hike, unemployment and lawlessness in the country. The army, which was supposed to defend the ideological frontiers of the country, had been serving the interests of the United States, which was evident from the recent operation in Wana.

Gen Pervez Musharraf, he said, first helped the US to end the Pakistan-friendly government of Taliban in Afghanistan and had now pitched the Pakistan army against its own people.

He claimed that the corrupt people wanted by the National Accountability Bureau had become ministers and the PML-Q was given a majority in the National Assembly and the Senate through worst kind of horse-trading.

The PML-N, he further said, would oppose any move aimed at sending the Pakistan army to Iraq and would strive for the restoration of democracy in the country.

Through an unanimously adopted resolution, the meeting asked the government to immediately stop the so-called operation in the Fata and refrain from sending troops to Iraq.