PESHAWAR, May 12: The Shabab-i-Milli launched a campaign against ‘obscenity’ and in the first step its activists smashed the signboards of a multinational soft drink company on Grand Trunk Road on Sunday night.

The youth wing of Jamaat-i-Islami activists tore down the signboards of the soft drink company at general bus stand on GT road at 10:30pm on Sunday and continued the operation for an hour, eyewitnesses said.

The JI youth wing also set a deadline of one week to the MMA government to remove all the publicity billboards and posters carrying pictures of women, otherwise they would remove them by force, a Shabab-i-Milli leader said.

“This warning is also for the public transport and after a week the party activists will launch the operation against obscenity,” Sabir Hussain Awan, the JI district chief and MNA from Peshawar, told this correspondent by telephone.

He said the people had voted the MMA to power and they wanted a complete Islamic society. “And there is no room for women’s picture at public places in Islam as it fell in the domain of obscenity,” he opined.