PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl workers on Friday took out rallies across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to protest a recent Supreme Court verdict in Mubarak Ahmad Sani case.

In the provincial capital, JUI-F workers took out a rally on the GT Road to protest the verdict. The rally started from the historic Qasim Ali Khan Mosque and converged on the GT Road. A statement issued here said the party leaders rejected the verdict, terming it in violation of the Constitution.

They said the apex court judgment had hurt the sentiments of entire nation.

JUI-F provincial general secretary Mualana Attaul Haq Darvish, Abdul Jalil Jan, Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai and other leaders spoke on this occasion.

They said the party would take a legal course if the verdict was not reversed. Besides, the statement said the party’s district chapters took out rallies in their respective headquarters against the verdict.

The protest rallies were taken out in Chitral, Upper Dir, Nowshera, Kohat, Karak, Tank, Bannu, Charsadda, Mardan, Swabi and merged districts.

The speakers criticised the SC verdict and termed it a conspiracy to make the Islamic provisions of the Constitution controversial.

The JUI-F activists also took out a rally in the Manshera district.

The rally, which started from outside the central mosque on Abbottabad Road, culminated at the press club.

Holding banners and placards, the participants raised slogans in support of their demands.

“We cannot allow the apex court to rule against the Constitution of this country, which says no law would be constituted against Sharia,” Maulana Waqarul Haq Usman, the prayer leader of the central mosque, declared.

Maulana Saeed Abdullah told the protesters that their protest would continue until the apex court reviewed its decision in accordance with the Islamic jurisprudence.

In Lower Dir, JUIF workers staged rallies in Timergara, Talash and Chakdara.

Dozens of the party workers came out of the mosques after the Friday prayers and chanted slogans in favour of the finality of the Prophethood.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2024