Source/Credit: The News | Lahore
By News Correspondent | December 29, 2010
RELIGIOUS leaders waging a movement to protect blasphemy laws claimed on Tuesday that they had got support of major traders’ bodies to observe a complete shutdown strike on December 31 (Friday) in protest against the west-backed conspiracy to secularise Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, the leaders of Tahaffuz Namoos Risalat Tehrik (TNRT) however reiterated their call to the nation particularly to the trader community to observe a peaceful complete shut-down strike to prove that followers of Holy Prophet (SAW) would never allow the rulers and west-sponsored NGOs to carry out their nefarious agenda to push the country towards a civil war-like situation.
The press conference was addressed by leaders of different religious parties running the TNRT, including Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch, JUI-F Information Secretary Maulana Amjad Khan, JUP Lahore President Malik Bashir Nizami, Muhammad Khan Leghari, JI Deputy Secretary General Dr Farid Paracha, Amirul Azeem and Anwar Niazi.
Liaqat Baloch said the TNRT had constituted various steering committees which were holding meetings with different traders’ leaders and market representatives in various cities and towns, adding that a number of traders’ leaders had already assured the TNRT of their full support with regard to the strike call.
He said the successful strike on Friday would prove that Muslims would never compromise on the honour of Holy Prophet (SAW) and considered it a blessing to offer every kind of sacrifice for the cause. He expressed sorrow that rulers had surrendered before the colonialist conspiracy to secularise the country by amending the Islamic laws, of which blasphemy laws is on top of the list.
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