KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan leader Senator Sirajul Haq has announced that his party will observe 12th of Rabiul Awwal as ‘Yaum-i-Azm-i-Tahaffuz Khatm-i-Nubuwat’ on Friday throughout the country and demanded that a judicial inquiry into the matter of amendment to the oath on Khatm-i-Nubuwat be initiated.

The JI chief, who was addressing a press conference at the JI Karachi headquarters, Idara Noor-i-Haq, on Thursday, said that the resignation of a minister was not enough as the nation wanted to know the names of all those behind the conspiracy.

He said that the United States defence secretary was due to arrive in Islamabad on Dec 3 at a time when the US was already asking the Pakistani government to amend the blasphemy laws.

“Our government ought to refuse the US categorically,” he demanded.

Published in Dawn, December 1st, 2017