ISLAMABAD, Dec 26: Jamaat-i-Islami has decided to launch a countrywide movement on Friday to force the government to transfer power to a national interim government that could hold immediate elections.

While announcing the decision on Wednesday, JI (Punjab) deputy chief Gulandaz Abbasi said the movement would include protest rallies, demonstrations, seminars, women and youth conventions and conferences of people of all sections of the society.

The party has convened a three-day meeting of its central working committee (Markazi Majlis-i-Shoora) on January 7 in Lahore, to chalk out a more meaningful line of action in this regard.

The JI leader said the movement would be directed against the government’s unconstitutional and secular acts, Indian aggressive designs and conspiracies against the Pakistan’s nuclear capability and Jihad-i-Kashmir.

It would be aimed at ridding the country of foreign forces, he added.

He said things were fast slipping out of hand and the situation demanded immediate release of all political opponents of the regime, including Qazi Hussain Ahmed, as well as immediate elections.