HYDERABAD, April 6 Activists of Women Action Forum on Monday took out a procession and staged a protest demonstration outside the press club against the flogging of a young girl in Swat by Taliban.

Forum leaders condemning the barbaric act said that Taliban in the garb of religion were meting out harsh treatment to women and had confined them to the four walls of their homes.

They called upon the civil society to launch an organised movement for stopping inhuman atrocities against women.

They said that the word Islam was being misinterpreted and misused and rejected the agreement with Taliban. They demanded deterrent punishment to the perpetrators of this heinous crime.

In Dadu, a large number of women and social activists took out a procession in Johi town on Monday in protest aganst girl's flogging in Swat.

They marched from Shaheed Makhdoom Bilawal Park to the main chowk of the town and were led by president of Village Shadabad Akbar Lashari and Khadim Hussain Soomro.

In Umerkot, members of civil society and activists of Women's Rights Action Forum took out a rally and held a demonstration outside the press club on Monday in protest against flogging a teenaged girl in Swat.

Nasreen Qambrani, Rasheeda Saand, Abdullah Khoso and Mir Hassan Arisar who led the protest said that Islam does not allow such an inhuman act against women. They termed it terror.