American Soldiers Desecrate Holy Qur’an

Protest day on 13th to condemn sacrilege of Quran: says Munawar


KARACHI, May 10: Protest day will be observed on May 13 across the country under the aegis of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal to condemn the desecration of the Holy Quran, inhuman treatment with prisoners in Guant�namo Bay prison, and the publication of a derogatory cartoon in the Washington Times about Pakistan.
The announcement was made by the MMA central leader and Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, Syed Munawwar Hasan, at a press conference at the Idara Noor-e-Haq [Karachi] on Tuesday. Jamaat leaders Muzaffar Ahmad Hashmi and Sarfraz Ahmad were also present on the occasion. He said the cartoon was part of rulers� policy. He said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had started its preparations for the local bodies� elections by resorting to killing, plundering and extortions.
The Washington Times cartoon, he said, had insulted not just 150 million Pakistanis, but even rulers, who were loyal to the US.
He warned the rulers that if the same foreign policy was pursued, they would see a day worse than the present.
Holding governor�s rule responsible for the sliding and worsening situation in Sindh, he called upon Shujaat Hussain to take immediate notice of it. He sought the intervention of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain pointing out that the chief minister was a hostage of the MQM.
Referring to the murder of an IJT worker, Farhan Asif, whose FIR was yet to be registered, he said the MMA was capable of facing every situation and could respond in a befitting manner, but it was not doing so only to avoid creating any bad situation.
He said that Shaukat Aziz had so far presented five budgets, and at the time he presented the first budget, poverty was 29 per cent, which had now increased to 42 per cent.
�If the coming budget is framed on the basis of propaganda, it will be an anti-people budget,� he said, and advised the government to get it prepared by local economists instead of getting it prepared by the IMF and the World Bank.