PESHAWAR, Nov 7: Jamiat Tulba-i-Islam, student wing of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, has urged the transporters, shopkeepers and city traders to observe a complete shutdown on Friday and express their solidarity with Afghan people being made target of bombardment by the US aggressors.
JTI leader Hussain Ahmed Madni expressed the hope that the wheel-jam would be an expression of no-trust against the military regime, helping the US invaders against the Taliban. Despite official propaganda, the JTI workers would make the strike and wheel-jam a success, he said.
“The JTI will take part in the civil disobedience campaign by the religious parties. We have been supporting Muslims, fighting everywhere against oppression and suppression. We support Taliban because they are combating with the US,” he said.
He claimed that, so far, the Taliban had amassed victories and the US and the Northern Alliance had faced humiliation at their hands.
Our Nowshera correspondent adds: Tanzeem-ul-Mashaikh Ulema wing of the NWFP PML has said that the business activities in the country would come to a halt on Friday as all religious and political parties had assured of their participation in the wheel-jam strike.
Pirzada Syedul Amin, while speaking at press conference here on Wednesday, said that the wheel-jam strike would be observed at all cost, as the United States continued to pound civilian population and killing scores of people everyday. He said 90 per cent of the country’s population opposed the US aggression on Afghanistan.
He said in the wake of American attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan’s nuclear installations had become vulnerable and its supreme national interests were exposed to dangers. The US attacks had also complicated the long-standing Kashmir dispute, he added.
Pirzada Syedul Amin said that the wheel-jam strike would strengthen Pakistan’s position as the Bush administration wanted to install a government of its own choice in Kabul and had started supporting the Northern Alliance openly. This would prove to be a deep-rooted conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan, he observed.
The allied forces were using state-of-the-art missiles, bombs and rockets against the un-armed Afghan people without having any evidence of their involvement in the Sept 11 suicide bombings, he remarked.
Our Mardan correspondent adds: Office bearers of Defense Council for Afghanistan and Pakistan, at a meeting at the residence of city president of Pakistan Muslim League, Hamayun Khan, chalked out a programme for the success of the wheel-jam strike in Mardan on Friday.
The council, a joint organization of different political and religious parties, will observe the strike against the air strikes on Afghanistan by America and its allied forces on Friday.
Local leaders of different political parties, including Ikramullah Shahid of Pakistan People’s Party, Mr Ghaffar of Jamaat Islami, Shujaul Mulk of Jamiat Ulema Islam (F), Mr Islam of JUI (S) and Ihsan Bacha, president of the Markazi Tanzeem Tajiran Mardan (MTTM), supported the call for the strike.
The leaders decided to block traffic at key points in the city. It was learnt that they decided to block traffic at Yusuf Zai Chowk, Pakistan Chowk, College Chowk, Nissatta Chowk and all the main routs in the district.
They decided to contact traders and people from different walks of life to make the strike successful.