KARACHI, Feb 16: Speakers at a protest demo on Friday condemning the government’s plan to demolish the mosques and madressah under the garb of constructing the Lyari Expressway warned that if the government did not refrain from its nefarious designs people would resist with force.

Speaking at the demonstration organized by the Tahafuz-i-Masajid Ahle Sunnat Action Committee at the Press Club, Maulana Qazi Ahmad Noorani, Maulana Abdul Jabbar Naqshbandi, Allama Muzaffar Hussain Shah and others said under a pre-planned conspiracy the city was being pushed towards secularism, which would not be allowed.

They asked the government to take stern action against those trying to violate the sanctity of Jamia Masjid Ahmad Raza, Jamia Masjid Qadria and Mazar of Pir Kifayat Ali Shah. If no action was taken, they warned the area residents would take direct action.

The action committee had observed the protest day against the demolition of mosques.