19 May 2004	Wednesday	28 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

SUKKUR, May 18: The Naib Amir of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, Maulana Murad Halejvi, has rejected holding of a national convention by President Gen Musharraf about the Hudood Ordinance and blasphemy law.

Speaking on occasion of a mosque inauguration at Khuto Khipir village near Saleh Pat town, Sukkur district, on Monday, he said that the JUI and other religious parties would launch a protest movement against it.

He said that President Gen Musharraf had raised an issue out of non-issue over the pressure of foreign powers and NGOs. Mr Halejvi said that the people of Pakistan did not demand it nor it was their problem.

He said that we had already warned that the country's religious and Islamic ideology was put at the stake which was evident from the action taken against religious institutes.

He urged the nation to get united to defend the Islamic ideology of the country. He said that when the NWFP government took action against obscenity in the province the western powers and NGOs said that it was not the public related issue.

ACCIDENT: Two persons were killed when a trailer, coming from Sahiwal, overturned and collided with a standing trailer in Ghulam Band, near Rohri, here on Tuesday morning. Those killed were identified as Mohammad Pervaiz and Mushtaq Ahmad, the driver and cleaner, respectively, of the trailer that overturned.