ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) announced on Thursday that it would launch a countrywide protest campaign against the government from Friday (today) for changing the Hudood laws tabled in the National Assembly in the name of women’s protection bill and vowed to put a strong resistance to all efforts to change the Islamic laws on foreign pressure.

Speaking at a news conference at the Parliament House cafeteria, leaders of the religious alliance Liaquat Baloch and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed said the MMA had chalked out a 14-day plan against the government’s move to change the Hudood laws.

Mr Baloch said that Khateebs and Imams of mosques had been directed to inform the people during Friday sermons about the real motives behind the government’s decision to change Hudood laws.

He said the MMA had decided to hold two public meetings, the first at the Nishtar Park in Karachi on Sunday (August 27) and the second at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on September 6. Besides this, he said, workers’ conventions would be organised in all the districts of the country on Saturday (Aug 26).

He said the MMA had also planned to hold Ulema and Mashaikh conventions in all major cities from August 28 to September 5. These conventions, he said, would be arranged in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta.

He said seminars and public meetings would be arranged in all the constituencies of the members belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and its coalition partner.

He said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would announce its future course of action during the public meeting in Karachi on Sunday.