KARACHI, Feb 6: The Pasban-i-Aza Pakistan (PAP) on Tuesday urged the government to constitute a task force to check sectarianism, religious fanaticism, extremism so that peace and harmony could be promoted in the society.

Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, the PAP leaders – S. M. Haider, Alamdar Hussain Rizvi, S. Nayyar Zaidi and others -- said that their demands be accepted before Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain.

They further demanded that steps be taken to send the Afghan refugees back to their country and the Afghan refugee camps, which, according to them, have become the nurseries for training and preparing suicide bombers be closed down.

They also demanded that all such madressahs where sectarianism was taught, or murders and terrorist activities were presented in a glorified manner be shut down. They also demanded that discriminatory attitude towards Shias be reviewed and they be treated as equal citizens.

They demanded that they be allowed to perform their religious rites freely and condition of obtaining an NOC to take out a procession, or organise majalis, etc be abolished.

They also presented a long list of issues, majority of which related to their mosques, imambargahs, and plots and construction of their religious places and demanded that these be solved on priority.