SAHIWAL, Feb 15: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will take out processions and hold rallies at district and provincial headquarters level to protest against price-hike and unemployment in country.

A big demonstration would also be held at Islamabad, Jamaat-i-Islami's Punjab Amir and MNA Liaquat Baloch told newsmen at a press conference at the residence of Sheikh Shahid Hamid on Sunday.

Mr Baloch said that the MMA would continue to play the role of opposition in parliament. He regretted that the ARD did not support the MMA move to requisition the National Assembly session on the issue of the nuclear scientists.

"This will strengthen the hands of Pervez Musharraf and others who are working on the American agenda," he said, and urged the ARD leadership to help the MMA launch a struggle in parliament against the conspiracies being hatched by the US, India and Israel against the national interests of Pakistan.

LAWYER KILLED: Unidentified men killed a lawyer in his house in Scheme No 3, Farid Town, on Saturday. Family said Sultan Ahmad Rana had gone to answer the door on Saturday night when unidentified men shot him dead and fled away.

Farid Town police registered the case. The cause of the murder could not be ascertained as the family said they had no enmity. Meanwhile, District Bar Association president Mehr Ejaz Qutab, general secretary Farrukh Hamid and Punjab Bar Council member Sheikh Usman have condemned the killing and demanded immediate arrest of the killers.

QURAN KHWANI: Local press photographer Meraajuddin Zafar died of hepatitis on Saturday night. He was 55. He was laid to rest in Mahi Shah graveyard. Quran Khwani will be held on Monday (today) at 9am in Gujjar Ahaata here.

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