Call for nationwide strike on March 3

Islamabad: A national convention of political and religious parties has called a countrywide shutter-down strike on March 3 and a series of rallies and seminars to protest against blasphemous cartoons printed in the western media.

The conference titled "Protection of the Sanctity of Prophethood" was led by Islamic alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA).

It appealed to the Ummah (Islamic nation) to stand up against the western onslaught on Muslims and the Islamic faith.

The conference unanimously declared that the western countries especially Denmark and the Netherlands have launched anti-Islam war at the behest of the Zionist lobby and American imperialism.

After last year's desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo Bay prison to hurt the sentiments of Muslims, it said the West has crossed all limits of human values and has started a heinous campaign to malign Islam.