US asked to stop atrocities

Published October 15, 2001

KOHAT, Oct 14: The amir of Taliban Tehrik, Orakzai Agency, Akhunzada Aslam Farooqui has asked the US to stop its brutalities in Afghanistan and announced that a strong force of 700,000 volunteer tribesmen were ready for Jihad.

Addressing a big public meeting at Dabori, a remote populous area in the Orakzai Agency on Saturday, he vowed that the Taliban would not bend under the pressure of international community and warned the US to vacate the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia and take steps to solve the Middle East crisis and the Kashmir.

He regretted that the West, which was blaming one man for carrying out terrorists attacks in the world, had failed to respond in the same manner when non-Muslims committed atrocities in Kosovo, Kashmir and East Timor.

They had been abetting the crimes in Palestine committed by the tiny Israeli State, which they had created by force in the predominantly Muslim region.

He said that the US was the real terrorist and exploiter, which had imposed its hegemony in the Muslim kingdoms, and divided them as liberals, fundamentalists and moderates.

He said that by waging a war against the brave Afghans the US had committed the biggest mistake for which it would be repaid promptly when ground war begins.