ISLAMABAD May 15: President Muttahida Majlis e Amal Qazi Hussain Ahmed has announced to observe May 27 as international protest day against the desecration of the Holy Quran by Americans in Guantanamo Bay. Speaking at a news conference here on Sunday, Qazi Hussain said that the Americans had shown their true colour by desecrating the Holy Book as a reward of Pakistan’s surrender to their policies and handing over of its citizens to US one by one.

He said the MMA had established contacts with 25 international Islamic movements, including Egypt’s Akhwanul Muslimoon and Malaysia’s Islamic Party, and all of them had agreed to observe May 27 as protest day.

He said US soldiers had ridiculed religion of the people of the country they ‘conquered’ and it was high time for the Muslim Ummah to rise against this arrogant world power.

He dismissed as false the rebuttal by the American general that no incident of desecration had occurred. He said the incident was reported non other then an American magazine.

About the domestic politics, Qazi Hussain Ahmed said, without directly naming PPP, that those who were demanding snap polls in 2005 were in fact doing so at the behest of president General Musharraf and it was breach of three-point agreement reached between the MMA and the ARD.

He reiterated the demand of MMA that president Musharraf should step down and transfer powers of president to the chairman Senate.