PESHAWAR, April 3: A group of religious students, led by two union councillors, staged a protest demonstration in support of students of Jamia Hafsa outside the Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday.

The protestors, led by Iqbal Hussain, union councillor of Jahangirpura, and Ishaq Haideri, union councillor of Yaktoot, termed Jamia Hafsa students’ occupation of a children library in Islamabad legitimate till the reconstruction of Hamza mosque razed by the Capital Development Authority.

They chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Hussain Ahmed, general-secretary Maulana Fazlur Rehman and the provincial government and criticised them for what they called their anti-Islamic stand on basic religious issues raised by the Jamia Hafsa students.