KARACHI: Rallies taken out against changes in curricula
KARACHI, Dec 30: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Friday held protest demonstrations throughout the city and took out protest rallies by observing black day against the removal of ways of offering prayers from textbooks, arrests and registration of cases against Ulema besides demanding the removal of the federal education minister.
Protest demonstrations and rallies were held outside major mosques after Friday prayers in various city parts. Handbills and pamphlets were distributed among people carrying details of the government’s steps regarding changes in the education curricula.
A large number of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and JI activists, students and common people attended the rallies, and shouted slogans against anti-Islamic steps, changes in the education curricula, deletion of Islamic teachings from textbooks, and putting Ulema behind bars by registering fake cases against them.
Protestors were holding banners and placards inscribed with demands and slogans against governmental steps and vowed to continue their struggle until the country’s transformation into an independent Islamic welfare state.
Protest demonstrations were held in areas including Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Federal B Area, PECHS, Liaquatabad, Malir, Landhi, Korangi, Baldia, SITE, Banaras Chowk, Garden, Keamari and other areas.
These were addressed by MMA MNA Muhammad Hussain Mehanti, MPAs Nasrullah Shajji, Younus Barai, Hameedullah Advocate, Merajul Huda Siddiqui and other leaders.
Addressing a protest demonstration in the defunct district West, MMA MNA Muhammad Hussain Mehanti alleged that military rulers were following foreign agenda to transform Pakistan into a secular state, which was evident from the transformation of education curricula at the behest of the US.
He said rulers had not only put sovereignty and security of Pakistan at risk, but they had also put Islam into danger on US directives. They (rulers) were taking blind actions against religious seminaries and the ideology of Pakistan, they said.
MMA legislators said religious parties and people of the country would never tolerate the situation and would not allow rulers to take steps against the nation’s ideological foundations.
They also further called for the immediate removal of Federal Education Minister Lt-Gen (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi.
Other JI and MMA leaders also addressed protest demonstrations in their constituencies and condemned changes in the education curricula and illegal detention of Ulema and registration of fake cases against them.
Strict security measures were taken by respective TPOs in their areas and police was put on high alert to tackle any untoward incident.—PPI
