LAHORE: Perturbed at Punjab Women Protection Law and execution of Mumtaz Qadri, religious forces are assembling at Jamaat-i-Islami headquarters here next week to mull over launching a joint anti-government drive.

Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith President Prof Sajid Mir says the meeting will be held on March 15.

MJAH is an ally of the ruling PML-N.

“The meeting will discuss a big movement aimed at protection of religious values of the country,” Mir says.

He says the liberal forces have targeted family system of Islam through the women protection law but he vows to thwart the move.

He says the law lacks backing of any religious force as not a single religious party has approved of it. To combine their forces against the law, he says, leadership of all religious parties is going to meet at Mansoora on March 15 to discuss various options of holding protest.

Published in Dawn, March 7th, 2016