PESHAWAR, Nov 26: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has announced a countrywide protest against the US attacks on Frontier province and tribal areas and continuation of the policies of former president Pervez Musharraf by the present rulers.

PML-N provincial president Pir Sabir Shah said the first phase of the protest movement would be launched from Sunday and rallies would be taken out in Peshawar and other districts of the province.

He said that a provincial assembly session was necessary in the existing circumstances and a letter in this regard had been sent to the chief minister who assured them to summon the session in the second week of December.

According to him the statement by the chief of Pakistan Air Force had made it clear that air force was capable of stopping US drone attacks if the government allowed it.

“Therefore, the government’s silence is criminal,” he said.

“Barack Obama is not president of Pakistan that he will bring peace to this region after taking oath of office,” he added.

He said the government had raised controversial issue of renaming of the province instead of pulling the nation out of crises.

He said the renaming issue would further complicate situation in the province.

“Pakhtunistan conspiracy was hatched in the Gandhi era and we’ll not allow the plan to succeed,” he said.

According to the plan, he added, the province would be renamed as Pakhtunkhawa in the first phase while in the second it would be segregated from the rest of the country.

Mr Shah said that US media had already unearthed ‘Greater Pakhtunistan and Greater Balochistan conspiracies.’

The PML-Nawaz leader said that rulers had been following Musharraf’s policies to please the US masters.

He said that law and order situation had worsened in the province particularly and the tribal areas.

He said that unemployment, lawlessness and price hike had reached their peak.

He said that innocent people were dying in bomb explosions in Peshawar, Hangu, Kohat, Swat, Tank and Bajaur and Mohmand agencies. He said the government was appeasing its foreign allies.