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Protest against lawmakers
Thousands of Muttahida Qaumi Movement supporters on Thursday demanded the arrest of lawmakers who tore copies of a Bill on women's rights in parliament.
- By Mujahid Ali, Correspondent
- Published: 00:00 August 25, 2006
Karachi: Thousands of Muttahida Qaumi Movement supporters on Thursday demanded the arrest of lawmakers who tore copies of a Bill on women's rights in parliament.
They also supported their self-exiled leader Altaf Hussain's demand that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) lawmakers be charged with blasphemy and their membership from the parliament be revoked.
Tearing the Bill, which contained religious phrases and words, has exposed the clerics and their double standards, he said.
"If it had been in my power, I would have given these hypocrite clerics the strictest possible punishment under the law and the constitution of Pakistan for indulging in blasphemy," Hussain addressed his emotional supporters over the telephone from London.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which says that the MMA lawmakers violated the sanctity of holy words written on the Bill, has launched an aggressive campaign against the clerics, putting them in a tight corner.
Thousands of MQM workers carrying banners assembled at the M.A. Jinnah Road in Karachi yesterday.
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