KARACHI, April 10: The Karachi chapter of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has announced that Friday (April 15) will be observed as ‘protest day’ against the police raids on MMA offices and residences of its leaders and workers. Protest rallies would be held outside mosques in the city on that day, it added. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Idara Noor-i-Haq with Hafiz Mohammad Taqi in the chair.

The meeting adopted a resolution condemning the Sindh government for ordering raids on Idara Noor-i-Haq, office of the Jamaat-i-Islami, and residences of several MMA leaders by police in civvies. It also deplored arrest of certain political leaders and workers and implicating them in false cases.

Meanwhile, the MMA’s Sindh chapter held a meeting here on Sunday and condemned the arrest of Maulana Qazi Hameedullah Jan, as well as other ulema and their colleagues in Gujranwala. The meeting was chaired by MNA Asadullah Bhutto.

Demanding their immediate release, the resolution adopted at the meeting warned that if all of them were not set free, a countrywide protest would be launched on April 16.

Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, Allama Hasan Turabi, Maulana Mohammad Yusuf Qasuri, Mohammad Hashim Siddiqui, Maulana Abdul Karim Abid, Dr Mumtaz Memon and Qari Mohammad Usman were among those who attended the meeting.

It resolved that obscenity and ladies-gents marathons in the country would not be tolerated.