KARACHI, March 25: The Jamaat-i-Islami has urged Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to take serious notice of the publication of blasphemous sketches in Danish newspapers and sever trade and diplomatic ties with Denmark.

This demand was made by the JI deputy chief, Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, while speaking at a press conference at Idara Noor-i-Haq on Tuesday.

He announced that a ‘Shaan-i-Mustafa’ march would be held on April 6 from the Quaid’s mausoleum to the Merewether Tower.

Allama Abbas Nazir Naqvi of the Islami Tehrik and Maulana Siddique Rathore of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan were also present.

He said there were 1.5 billion Muslims in the world and every fifth man was a Muslim while there were 57 Islamic countries and their organisation OIC was the second largest representative body after the United Nations. But the absence of democracy in Muslim countries had encouraged the West to publish blasphemous sketches.

Prof Ghafoor said Denmark was guilty of publication of such sketches once again in an attempt to provoke the Muslims.

He said the US and other western countries had been projecting the Muslims as terrorists but today the world was asking if the invaders of Iraq and Afghanistan were not terrorists.