MIANWALI, Jan 24: JUP president Maulana Shah Anas Noorani has said that the government is promoting obscenity in the name of enlightened moderation.

He was addressing a mammoth gathering at the municipal committee ground on Wednesday evening.

He said that the government was pursuing certain policies that were against Islamic values. Paying tribute to Hazrat Imam Husain (RA) for his stand against a tyrant, he said jihad had become inevitable against the present government.

He said that dictatorship in Islam was unlawful so Mulsims would no longer tolerate the `one-man-show’ in the country. He criticised General Pervez Musharraf and his supporters in the government for calling those who learnt Quran and Sunnah as extremists.

He claimed that the Women Protection Law was part of a western agenda to promote vulgarity and obscenity in the country, adding Muslims would never allow promulgation of any law which was repugnant to Islamic teachings.

Noorani criticised Federal Minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi and announced that he would contest against him from NA-72, Mianwali. He demanded that Mianwali-Bannu road should be named after Maulana Abdus Sattar Khan Niazi.

Addressing the meeting, MMA Punjab president Liaquat Baloch said in Islamic history Yazidiyat meant dictatorship so they were ready to wage a jihad against a dictator. He lashed out at government action in tribal areas and military operation in Balochistan.

He said by taking these measures the government had put sovereignty of the country at stake. He said unemployment and prices of commodities were on the rise and masses were not safe even in their houses.

Mr Baloch said the JI central command was in possession of resignations of legislators that would be tendered at an appropriate time. He said that the PML-N and PTI were ready to wage a final war against the military dictator but the PPP was looking towards the US for a signal.

Calling Dr Sher Afgan Khan as “Mafi Khan”, he said the people of the district would reject him once for all when Anas Noorani would contest against him.

Earlier, MMA district president Muhammad Aslam Khan Rokri, JUP secretary-general Qari Zawar Bahadar, Sahibzada Saeed Ahmed of Darya Sharif, MMA Markazi Naib Sadar Ali Haider Noor, Muhammad Amir Bhorvi of the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat and Anjuman Tulaba Islam’s Shahzad Chishti also addressed.