HYDERABAD, Oct 28: Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan senior vice- president Dr Sahebzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has criticized at the government for adopting a bill to amend the blasphemy law.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, he warned that by amending the blasphemy law, the government had created problems for itself.

He said the rulers had amended the law to please the US but they had forgotten that the people of Pakistan would not allow anyone to tamper with this law.

According to a spokesman for the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Mr Zubair talked to MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Jamiat JUP chief Prof Syed Shah Fareedul Haq and other leaders on the issue.

Mr Ahmad is reported to have assured him that a session of the National Assembly would be requisitioned and a strategy would be evolved to launch a strong movement against the government.

APA: The Association of People of Asia, Pakistan chapter, has demanded that prime ministers of Pakistan and India should order immediate opening of the Khokhrapar-Monabao route.

In a joint statement issued here on Wednesday, the president of the association, Khurshid Ahmad Shaikh, Sindh chapter president, Zafar Ahmad Rajput, and Syed Abbas Ali Jafari said 90 per cent people who visited India belonged to Sindh and it was, therefore, necessary to open the route.

SUSPENDED: HDA director-general Tahir Ahmad has suspended commercial managers of City, Qasimabad and Latifabad talukas, Amanullah Mastoi, Saleem Gill and Naeem Shaikh, respectively, for their failure to meet water and sewerage bills' recovery targets.

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