PESHAWAR: Defa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC) has termed the attack on a military convoy in North Waziristan Agency and killing of army personnel a US ploy to sabotage the dialogue process and urged the government to end military operation in the tribal areas.

The council, a conglomerate of religio-political parties and personalities, held a jirga here at Jamaat-i-Islami`s provincial secretariat on Sunday. DPC chairman Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of Jamaatud Dawa Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Lt-Gen (retired) Hamid Gul, JI general secretary Liaquat Baloch and others attended the jirga.

At the end of the jirga, Maulana Samiul Haq read out a 10-point declaration, calling upon the government to abandon the US-led war against terrorism, take steps to stop drone strikes in Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and start peace talks with Taliban immediately.

Expressing concern over last week suicide attack on a mosque and subsequent military action in Mirali, North WaziristanAgency, the declaration held the US responsible for the incidents and alleged that those acts were parts of the American conspiracy to disrupt peace process in tribal areas.

The declaration asked the government to stop military action in Fata especially in North Waziristan Agency and take concrete steps for starting dialogue with Taliban.

`Pakistan should come out of the socalled war against terrorism. The government should take pre-emptive measures to stop drone strikes,` it said.

`In case America does not halt drone strikes, the government should order Pakistan Air Force to hit the intruding drones,` said the declaration.The jirga asked the government to start peace talks with Taliban in the light of joint declarations of the Parliament, All Parties Conference and Cabinet Committee on National Security.

The government should not bow to foreign pressure in talks with the Taliban.

The participants of the jirga decided to expedite the protest movement against drone attacks and Nato supplies.

They said that DPC would organise country-wide protest against Nato supplies.

They appreciated blockade of Nato supplies through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing the jirga, Maulana Samiul Haq said that America planned to create political and economic crises in Pakistanafter tasting defeat in Afghanistan.

He said that presence of America in the region was root cause of lawlessness in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bombings, targeted killing and sectarian violence.

`The government should abandon war against terrorism in the larger interest of the nation,` he said and alleged that foreign elements were trying to destabilise Pakistan.

Liaquat Baloch said that resolution passed in the United Nations General Assembly regarding drone strikes were not binding upon America and she could veto the resolution in Security Council. He said that government should not afraid of suspension of the US assistance in case Pakistan did not allow Nato supplies.