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PESHAWAR: Religious political parties in Pakistan have begun to demonstrate their opposition to the week-long military operation against 500 extremists in a tribal area near the Afghan border.

'Tribal Rebellion'

'There is a possibility of a tribal rebellion if the government continues with such operations in the tribal zones,' said Bazar Gul, president of the Khyber Union, a tribal organisation in the Khyber district, between Peshawar.

Hundreds of demonstrators blocked a main road southwest of Peshawar this week shouting 'Stop the Wana operation', 'Down with America', and 'The Americans are the world's worst terrorists', before symbolically burning an effigy of US President George W. Bush.

Threats to Islamabad

'Stop the Wana operation immediately, or Islamabad will not be able to hide from its flames,' the leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Abdul Wadood Afridi, said during the protest.

'The operation was launched on the order of the Americans and we demand that all American favourites leave Pakistan,' he added.