September 22, 2007	Saturday	Ramazan 09, 1428

MANSEHRA, Sept 21: The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) and Wafaqul Madaris Al-Arabi (WMA) took out a procession on Friday in protest against killing of religious scholar Maulana Hassan Jan.

Protesters carried banners and placards and marched on Abbottabad, Kashmir and Shinkiary roads.

They reached the city’s main roundabout where local leaders of the APDM and WMA criticised the president’s role in the present situation.

They demanded that President Gen Pervez Musharraf should resign to save the country.

Jamaat-i-Islami’s provincial deputy secretary general Dr Tariq Sherazi, former senator Hadaitullah Shah, PML (N) district president Aslam Khan Baffa and Khan Afzal advocate said that the country was passing through difficult times but President Gen Pervez Musharraf wanted him to be elected as president in uniform which was a real threat to the existence of the country.

They demanded that Musharraf should immediately doff his uniform and resign from the post of president.

They said that the APDM would never give the safe passage to Musharraf to be elected as president either in uniform or without the uniform.

They said that if the life of a peaceful scholar Maulana Hassan Jan was not safe, how the ordinary citizen would be saved.

They called upon opposition legislators to resign from national and provincial assemblies to block the way of president Musharraf to be elected either in uniform or without the uniform.