Samiul Haq receives JI’s long marchers

NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq on Monday said that anti-state elements would continue to use the tribal areas for activities against Pakistan until it was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Speaking to the participants of the Jamaat-e-Islam (JI) long march for the merger of tribal areas into the province at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak here, the Maulana said anti-Pakistan forces would not let the merger materialised. The participants stopped at the seminary where the JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq received the participants of the long march. The participants also staged a sit-in at Shubra Chowk. The Maulana said that JUI-S was against the Frontier Crimes Regulation law and had time and again made demands for abolition of this draconian law. He said that tribespeople were the defenders of the country and the enemy wanted to oppress them through ‘black laws’.