PESHAWAR, Nov 1: The Hasba bill will be re-tabled, passed during the current session of the NWFP Assembly and enforced, according to Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan.

Presiding over the MMA’s provincial council meeting, the senator said that the federal government and international community ‘must respect it’ as the alliance had been voted in for the enforcement of the Islamic Shariah. However, the alliance would welcome and accommodate positive criticism on “any clause of the bill”.

The Maulana, who is also the JUI-F’s provincial president, was flanked by MMA’s provincial general secretary Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, MNA, and JUI-F’s general secretary Maulana Shujaul Mulk and adviser to the NWFP chief minister Ramzan Tauqir.

Later, Maulana Gul Naseeb said that a number of decisions had been taken in the meeting.

Condemning what he termed US air strikes on a seminary in the Bajaur Agency, he said that the MMA had called for staging protest demonstrations all over the NWFP and Fata on Friday.

The senator also urged the ulema to condemn the Bajaur Agency incident in their Friday sermons.

“We have no doubts that the Madressah was attacked by the US (forces),” he said, adding that the act was a “sheer border violation”.

He insisted that if at all, the people targeted in the attack had committed any wrongdoings, they should have been arrested and jailed. He termed it ironic that instead of protecting their countrymen, the army bombed its own people even if for a moment it was accepted that the raid was carried out by Pakistani troopss.

He said that the alliance’s re-organisation would start on Nov 18-19 in Karak, Kohat, Hangu, Haripur, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Battagram and Kohistan districts.