KOHAT: People marched on roads in dif ferent towns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjoining Fata on Monday to condemn US President Donald Trump`s tirade against Pakistan over the country`s alleged failure to effectively eliminate terrorists staging attacks in Afghanistan.

In Kohat, rallies were held in the city, Shkardarra Town and Jarma, led respectively by MPA Ziaullah Bangash, law minister Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi, and district bar association and JUI-F.

The participants termed the Afghanistan policy announced by Trump as an insult to 70,000 sacrihces rendered by the people of Pakistan and its armed forces.

They also burnt effigy of US president and flag. The participants were chanting slogans against the US, and in favour of Pak Army.

The main rally was taken out from Peshawar Chowk to Martyrs` Square led by MPA Ziaulah Bangash.

The lawyers also marched fromthe district courts to the Kachehry Chowk. The protesters claimed India and US were targeting Pakistan but they would not succeed in their nef arious designs.

In Mohmand Agency, tribesmen, including workers of political parties, staged a demonstration in Ghalanai against the US administration`s diatribe against Pakistan. The protesters were carrying placards inscribed with antiUS slogans.

Rallies were taken out in the border areas and Main Mandi Bazaar, which later joined the main rally in Ghalanai. The protesters gathered in front of the Mohmand Press Club, where speakers said Pakistan was not afraid of President Trump`s threats and that the new US policy was not acceptable to the tribal people. During the protest the main Peshawar-Bajaur Road remained blocked for an hour.

In Bajaur, tribesmen staged demonstrations in various areas to reject the US president`s threats against Pakistan and pledged to stand by the security forces in defending the country`s sovereignty. People from differentwalks of life participated in the anti-US demonstrations.

The participants flayed the US president for threatening Pakistan, saying Pakistan had played a key role in the war against terrorism.

The speakers termed Trump`s statement that Pakistan was supporting terror organisations had no basis. They noted that Pakistan was the most affected country in the anti-terror war.

They claimed the US president`s Afghanistan policy was nothing else but to strengthen the Indian foothold in the war-torn country.

In Chitral, addressing a press conference, Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmed Khan asked the government to act boldly on the threats hurled by the US president against Pakistan.

He said Pakistan was the most affected country in the so-called war on terror, which he argued, was in fact the war waged by the US against the Muslim world to secure its own interests.

The JI leader said the nation wanted the government to respond to the `do more` mantra of the USwith `no more`. In Lakki Marwat, two separate rallies were taken out in Lakki and Naurang towns to condemn the US president`s aggressive tone against Pakistan.

In Lakki city, the rally started from Mohallah Sayyedan and converged at Qazi Ishfaq Chowk af ter passing through various points of the city.

At the Naurang rally, the participants raised anti-US slogans and burnt ef figies of US President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Nerendra Modi.

The speakers said that the US president`s accusations against Pakistan for providing safe havens to terrorists were unfounded. The security forces and people of Pakistan have rendered great sacrifices in the war on terror just for the sake of ensuring sustainable peace in the entire region, they maintained.

They said the world had recognised such sacrinces and Pakistan`s vital role in rooting out the menace of terrorism. They said Pakistan had suffered more than any other country, but the United States had ignored these contributions.