ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The National Consultative meeting titled ‘Tahaffuz Namoos-i-Risalat’ held here on Saturday announced a countrywide shutter-down strike on March 3, a series of rallies and seminars.

It appealed to the Ummah to observe the day to mark as protection of the Holy Prophet’s reverence and the western onslaught against Muslims.

Hosted by Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) president Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the conference was attended among others by PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq, PML secretary-general Mushahid Hussain, JUI-F deputy chief Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Jamiat Ahle Hadith chief Prof Sajid Mir, Jamaat Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Ittehad Tanzeemat Madaris-i-Deeniah leader Dr Sarfaraz Naeemi.

People’s Party Parliamentarians chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Pakistan Tehrik Insaaf chairman Imran Khan, who had earlier confirmed their participation, could not make it for personal reasons, Qazi Hussain Ahmed told newsmen.

The conference held at the residence of MMA’s MNA Mian Mohammad Aslam, unanimously declared that the western countries especially Denmark and the Netherlands have launched an anti-Islam war at the behest of Zionist lobby and American imperialism.

After last year’s desecration of the Holy Quran in Guantanamo Bay prison to hurt the sentiments of Muslims, it said the West has crossed all limits of sanctity and human values and has started a heinous campaign to malign Islam and the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him).

The conference demanded that the government should recall its envoys from those countries which had published blasphemous cartoons and send their envoys back; an assurance be sought from the countries involved in publishing blasphemous material that they would punish those responsible for the sacrilegious act and would not allow their repeat; an emergency meeting of the OIC be convened which should announce discontinuation of trade and cultural relations with those countries and boycott their products; a campaign to degrade Islamic laws in the name of enlightened moderation in the country be halted and solidarity be declared against the atheistic civilization.

The conference also announced holding of “Shan-i-Mustafa” rallies on February 19 in Islamabad, on February 26 in Lahore, on March 6 in Karachi. It announced it would hold rallies and seminars across the globe.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain called for an effective joint strategy to counter publication of blasphemous sketches and protect the sanctity of Islam and Ummah in future.