KARACHI: While opposing `any war` in Pakistan, a Left-wing group on Sunday described the unrest in the country`s tribal areas and Balochistan, particularly in North Waziristan, as a battle between the groups `who want new social contract` against the ones belonging to the traditional ruling class.

`Take it Baloch or take it Taliban in the tribal areas, they commonly want justice, which they have been denied by the ruling influential class,` claimed Sartaj Khan, a Left-wing researcher, while rendering a lecture on Waziristan, Taliban and socialist perspective organised by the Inqilabi Socialists Karachi at the PMA House.

He called it a ploy of the establishment which was trying to involve a majority of people in a war which could never be theirs.

`In Waziristan and other tribal areas in the coun-try`s north, the old bourgeois have been wiped out, yet the defeated class doesn`t want to give in to the new system, which makes the things worse,` he said.

He did not speak about the reasons behind militant attacks, of which the Taliban claimed responsibility, outside the tribal areas that killed tens of thousands of people over the last decade.

He, however, said his group was neither a Taliban supporter nor adherent to the Pakistani state.

He said his group was against the state and Taliban and thought the peaceful majority related to none`s war. He claimed that the Pakistani army and political administration in the tribal areas were isolated and had no popular support.

The crux of the matter, as he defined, was that the establishment was ghettoizing the people of Waziristan to crush them as it faced a battle right against them.