HYDERABAD: Activists of the Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) held protests in Jacobabad and Hyderabad on Saturday, demanding immediate release of the party’s provincial leader Maulana Mohammad Naqi Hyderi and withdrawal of ‘fake cases’ lodged against him and over 40 MWM activists in Khairpur.

MWM Hyderabad general secretary Rehman Raza Abbasi, spokesman Maulana Gul Hassan Murtazavi and others appealed at a news conference at the Hyderabad press club that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari should play their role to get Maulana Naqi released.

They urged the party heads to take notice of PPP leaders’ ‘biased attitude’ towards the MWM and warned that if the party did not mend its ways it would have to suffer great political loss throughout the province.

They said that Maulana Naqi who was MWM’s secretary of tablighat and principal of Madressah Imamia was arrested this morning (Saturday) in Kumb City in Khairpur district “in a vengeful action by PPP MPA Manzoor Wassan.”

They said that when MWM decided to hold a big public meeting in Khairpur in the wake of suicide blast at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the PPP government did not allow it on the pretext of imposition of Section 144, although the party had permitted the gathering earlier.

They criticised the Sindh government and the PPP “whose district leader was found working as a facilitator” in the terror attack on the Sehwan shrine. The MWM was trying to pull off veils from the faces of the terrorists who were carrying out massacres across the country, they said.

They claimed that fake cases had been registered against more than 40 activists of MWM besides the arrest of Maulana Naqi at the behest of Manzoor Wassan.

They said the PPP was taking the vindictive actions to appease the banned outfits and reiterated the appeal for immediate release of the maulana and withdrawal of cases lodged against him and other activists.

They said that “terrorists, banned organisations and Daesh” were busy tearing apart the country’s peace but the government was not showing earnestness in going after terrorists and eradicating terrorism from the province.

SUKKUR: Activists of MWM took out a rally and held a sit-in outside the press club in Jacobabad on Saturday in protest against the arrest of their leader Maulana Naqi.

The rally, led by Allama Saif Ali Domki, Nisar Ahmed Abro, Syed Asghar Ali Shah and others, marched on different roads of the city before reaching the press club where the participants held a sit-in and raised slogans against the PPP and the provincial government.

The leaders condemned Khairpur police over the arrest of Maulana Naqi and alleged that he was arrested at the behest of a provincial minister who belonged to Khairpur district. They warned of staging more protests if their leader was not freed immediately.

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2017

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