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Cleric wants FBI, CIA offices removed

LAHORE: A Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) leader on Friday urged the government to remove the equipment and offices of the United States investigation agencies - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - from Chitral within 20 days. Failure to do so, he said, would lead to a countrywide protest movement against their interference.

MNA Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali told a press conference here that the local people would not tolerate at any cost US intelligence agencies’ offices in the area.

Rumours of Osama Bin Laden’s presence in Chitral were being spread to justify US intelligence agencies’ offices in the area, Chitrali said, adding: “We think that Osama is no more alive and this is just the US propaganda to enter north Pakistan.”

He said that the US wanted complete access to Afghanistan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan for its vested interests, and alleged the Pakistani government for fully supporting Washington towards this end.

The MMA leader said that neither provincial nor federal government officials were ready to raise the issue of US intelligence presence in Chitral. The MMA raised the issue during the National Assembly’s last session, but to no avail, he added.

Chitrali said he had earlier tried to move a privilege motion against the US intelligence agencies in Chitral, but Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had asked him to come to his chamber instead of moving the motion.

“If the government allows US intelligence to set up offices in Chitral, we will give the rulers a tough time”, he warned. staff report

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