HYDERABAD, July 26: Provincial leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have warned that if Pakistani troops are sent to Iraq, the MMA will launch a country-wide protest movement against the government and block all sea, land and air routes.

Speaking at a protest rally outside the press club here on Monday, Jamaat-i-Islami provincial amir Dr Mumtaz Ali Memon held the government responsible for the murder of MMA activists on and after May 12 and said that the MMA would never forgive the government for the murder of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, party activists and the Imambargah Ali Raza massacre.

He asserted that the ban imposed on the use of loudspeakers in mosques as well as proposed amendments in the Hudood Ordinance and the Blasphemy Law were simply unacceptable.

Time was not far when the MMA would emerge victorious in Sindh as it had in the NWFP, and would enforce the Nizam-i- Mustafa (SAW) in the province, Dr Memon claimed. Maulana Abdul Waheed Qureshi alleged that the rulers, by making amendments in the Islamic laws, were trying to protect a particular community.

Maulana Taj Mohammad Nahiyoon, Shaikh Shaukat Ali, Maulana Shabbir Ahmed, Syed Moazzam Ali and others also spoke. The congregation adopted several resolutions rejecting the amendments in the Hudood Ordinance and the Blasphemy Law besides the ban on use of loudspeakers.

It demanded that cases registered against religious leaders for use of loudspeakers should be withdrawn and the ban on entry of Dr Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Sindh and some parts of the NWFP should be lifted. It also demanded that murderers of Maulana Mohammad Sheerani should be hanged in public at the Meezan Chowk in Quetta.