March 03, 2008	Monday	Safar 24, 1429

LAHORE, March 2: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUP) will give time to new government to fulfill their promises of reinstatement of judges and will observe countrywide protest demonstrations on March 7 against the publication of blasphemous sketches in Denmark.

The decisions were taken on the first day of a two-day meeting of the JUP Shoora and the executive committee held at Jamia Muhammadia Rizvia, Gulberg, here on Sunday.

JUP Acting President Sahibzada Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair and General Secretary Qari Zawwar Bahadar told reporters the JUP respected the mandate of political parties emerging victorious in the general elections and would help them honour the promises of reinstatement of deposed judges of superior courts, restoration of independent judiciary and the media and the 1973 Constitution.

They said controlling terrorism and maintenance of law and order would be the challenges to be faced by the new government but it should resolve terrorism through a dialogue as the attempts to control it by force had failed.

Inflation will also be one of the major problems to be faced by the new government. Caretaker Finance Minister Dr Salman Shah's statement that POL prices and power supply tariff had been raised in consultation with the Pakistan People’s Party seemed to be a conspiracy against it.

They said the meeting had decided to try to revive the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and made a three-member committee for the purpose. The committee would meet Jama'at-I-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed and then Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam President Maulanad Fazlur Rehman and asked them to revive the MMA.

They said the JUP considered the publication of blasphemous sketches of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) in Danish newspapers a conspiracy against the world peace.