An influential Islamist leader and chief of Pakistan's main religious party Sunday warned President Pervez Musharraf and the United States against attacking Afghanistan.
Fundamentalist Jamaat-i-Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed told an emergency gathering of some 30 religious and secular parties in the eastern city of Lahore that an attack on Afghanistan would be disastrous.
"We advise Pakistani rulers and the United States to keep away from a path that had in the past led to the defeat and destruction of the Soviet Union," he said in a speech.
"Arrogance and power games will bring nothing but destruction” -- ISLAMABAD (AFP)
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