SUKKUR, Nov 20: Sindh Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president MNA Asadullah Bhutto has said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf has got the Protection of Women’s Rights Bill passed in an attempt to save his uniform.

Addressing a meeting of district Amirs and other leaders in Sukkur on Sunday, he said that the MMA had started its movement against the bill and strategy for tendering phase-wise resignations from parliament would be worked out in a meeting to be held in Islamabad in the first week of December.

He said: “We will even sacrifice our lives to safeguard Islamic laws”.

Elaborating the strategy regarding the movement against the government, Asadullah Bhutto told the meeting that in the first phase, public meetings would be held at taluka levels and in the second phase inter-district caravans would be arranged.

He said that in the third phase sit-in would be held in provincial and federal capitals.

He was optimistic that the people of Sindh would play their due role in the ouster of Musharraf government.

The meeting also discussed at length the political scenario in the country in general and in Sindh, particularly.

The meeting expressing its anxiety over deteriorating condition of agriculture in Sindh, condemned the Sindh government for not paying proper attention towards problems of the agriculture sector.

It demanded that the government should set up rice procurement centres in Sindh as in Punjab so that growers could get proper return of their crops.