PESHAWAR, May 27: Women wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami staged a protest demonstration here on Friday against the desecration of the Holy Quran at the Guantanamo Bay. Protesters, including JI’s women MPs, were holding placards inscribed with slogans against the US and President Musharraf. They gathered in front of the Peshawar Press Club carrying the copies of the Holy Quran and raising anti-US slogans. Provincial women wing chief Bilqees Hussain led the protest.

Addressing the protesters wearing black armbands inscribed with ‘Allaho Akbar’, MMA leaders MNA Shabbir Ahmad Khan and Sabir Hussain Awan vowed not to allow anybody to play with the religious sentiments of the Ummah.

They asked the Ummah to unite against infidel forces, otherwise, they said, the US would launch attacks on the Muslim countries one after another.

The MMA leaders demanded that the people responsible for publishing derogatory cartoon in the Washington Times and the desecration of the Holy Quran be handed over to Pakistan.

MNAs Inayat Begum and Razia Aziz, and MPAs Zubaida Iqbal, Sabira Shakir, Shaheena Akhtar Ali and Shagufta Naz were present on the occasion.