KARACHI: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam’s Samiul Haq group (JUI-S) has called for a complete strike on Friday against the recent assassination of Mufti Usman Yar Khan with his aides and ‘extrajudicial killings of youngsters of a certain sect,’ said a senior leader on Thursday.

He claimed to have won support for the strike call from all major parties including ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), JUI-Fazal, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Jamaat-i-Islami, traders and transport organisations.

A five-point demand has already been conveyed to the authorities for immediate action otherwise the protest will be expanded, according to him. “We want immediate arrest of Mufti Usman Yar Khan’s killers,” said Hafiz Ahmed Ali of the JUI-S. “There is also a demand for payment of compensation to the families of the victims who have been targeted in recent months. Besides, we have demanded comprehensive security of seminaries and judicial inquiry into recent extrajudicial murder of seminary students and youngsters belonging to the Deobandi sect.