HYDERABAD, Jan 18: The Sindh chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) will stage a motor rally from Hatri bypass to Hyder Chowk on Sunday to protest against amendments in the Hudood Ordinance, bombardment on what they call seminaries and issues concerning the province like Kalabagh dam and sale of two Karachi islands.

This was announced by the provincial deputy secretary-general of the party, Maulana Abdul Qayoom Halejvi, and others at a news conference at the press club on Thursday.

They said that the provincial chief of the JUI, Moulana Abdul Samad Halejvi, Senator Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro and other leaders would lead the rally.

They said that the government had banned public gatherings during Muharram by imposing section 144 of the CrPC but made it clear that the rally would be staged come what may.Saying it was a political rally, the JUI leasers ruled out any clashes during it on the ground that the religious parties were united under the banner of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

They said that due to lawlessness, Sindh had been converted into an inferno and in the wake of intensifying tribal disputes, the rural areas of the province ‘have been handed over to bandits.’