SWABI: Religious scholars on Sunday vowed to play their due role in establishing durable peace in the country.

They were speaking at the concluding session of a three-day congregation of Jamaat Ashat Wa Tauheed Wal Sunnah at Panjpir here.

Leaders of different religious parties also participated in the gathering.

Addressing on the occasion, head of Jamaat Ashat Wa Tauheed Wal Sunnah Maulana Mohammad Tayyab said that they had already played their role in restoration of peace in the country.

Maulana Tayyab said that peace was a prerequisite for progress and prosperity of the country.

Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, provincial president of Jamaat-i-Islami, said that their alliance with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in the province was only limited to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The partyhas nothing to do with the PTI`s `lockdown` of Islamabad. The JI leadership has decided to stay away from the protest, he added.

However, in the same breath he said the federal and Punjab governments` decision to block the Khairabad Bridge on the GT Road at Attock was a bid to scuttle the PTI caravan entering Punjab was not acceptable. `The PML-N government`s tactics are against the democratic norms,` he said.

The blockade of the roads clearly showed that PML-N leaders still lived in the colonial period and applied the same tactics which were applied by the British Indian rulers to suppress dissent.

Later, talking to media persons, he said if the federal government tried to dissolve the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly the JI would block such an action.

`We are democratic people and against the dissolution of the assembly,` he said.