KARACHI, Jan 10: Hundreds of the Jamaat-i-Islami women activists staged a protest demonstration on Friday in front of Karachi Press Club against the arrest of family members of a Jamaat leader, Sabiha Shahid.

The activists of the Jamaat Women Wing demanded of the government to refrain from harassing innocent citizens.

Carrying banners inscribed with slogans and demands regarding an end to harassment of citizens, deportation of the FBI agents and others, the protesters said the FBI raids and arrests of innocent people, including women and children, were against the sovereignty of the country. They demanded of the government to apologise for such acts.

Later, some JI women leaders— Talat Zaheer, Ruqaiya, Rabia Alam, Tanseer Fatima and Rakhshanda Naz— told newsmen that the women members of Sabiha’s family were even not allowed to wear veils. They were arrested like ‘notorious criminals’, they added.

Criticizing the government for ‘implementing the US agenda’, they said that such operations would aggravate the situation.—PPI