HYDERABAD, Dec 5: Muttahida Qaumi Movement staged rallies, demonstrations and sit-ins across the province on Tuesday after its chief Altaf Hussain urged to condemn Pakistan Muslim league’s decision to hold talks with religious scholars and ulema over Women's Protection Act, recently signed into law by the president.
MQM activists took to streets to condemn Pakistan Muslim League chief Chaudhry Shujaat’s in Hyderabad, Thatta, Dadu, Khairpur, Nawabshah, Mirpurkhas, Jacobabad, Larkana and Sukkur.
The party organised a rally and a demonstration on Miran Mohammad Shah road in Hyderabad addressed by party leaders and elected representatives. MPA Naeem Ishtiaq criticised Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) for opposing the women’s act and charged that the religious parties had always shown double standards when it came to defining teachings about jihad.
He said that MQM had made deep inroads in the Punjab, much to the bafflement of some powerful families. MPA Aslam Pervez said that Chaudhry Shujaat's negotiations with ulema on amendments to the act were tantamount to treachery with allies. Nobody would allow amendments to the new act, he warnedd.
MQM Zonal Organiser Siraj Rajput said that if attempts were made to break the just enacted law then people had the right to protest against it. His party would not accept decision taken single-handedly by Chaudhry Shujaat, he said.
THATTA: Local leaders of MQM said in their addresses to a rally in front of the local press club that PML had betrayed the trust of its coalition partner by not taking it into confidence over talks with ulema.
Humayoon Zaidi, Ismail Soho, Aziz Soomro, Hamid Shaikh said that it was futile to talk with MMA or any religious leader and warned that the party would not be part of any conspiracy against women.
DADU: Special Assistant to Chief Minister Hussain Bux Solangi, local MQM leaders Ghulam Murtaza Solangi and Mohammad Ali led a rally here against PML.
KHAIRPUR: Activists of MQM staged a procession here, which started from MQM zonal office and reached Panj Gulla Chowk before marching on different roads of the city.
MQM Zonal In-charge Nadeem Soomro and Mohammad Askari who led the procession said that no pressure or conspiracies against the bill should be accepted after it had been signed into law.
NAWABSHAH: MQM leaders Sohail Mashadi, Anwar Saleem and Sheeraz Masood said in their addresses to a rally and a demonstration outside the press club that PML was ignoring its coalition partner.
They said that MQM’s peaceful demonstration was not a sign of cowardice.
MIRPURKHAS: Party workers staged a rally and demonstration here which was led by Interior Sindh MQM In-charge Ashfaque Mangi, Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Shabbir Kaimkhani.
The leaders warned that people would not tolerate any amendment to the women’s act through backdoor.
JACOBABAD: MQM’s rally starting from General Post Office marched on different roads of the city before reaching DCO Chowk where the participants staged a sit-in.
LARKANA: MQM activists held demonstrations in Larkana and Qambar against PML leadership. Senator Mohammad Ali Brohi and Habib Buledi led the rally, which ended at the main gate of Jinnahbagh in a sit-in.
SUKKUR: The leaders slammed Chaudhary Shujaat and said that he would not be allowed to make any amendments to the act.
They warned that MQM would not allow the government to make any changes in the act.
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