| Didn't get their way on putting religion on passports, so now they have to go out in the streets and bitch about it. |
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) will observe a 'protest day' today (Friday) throughout the country against the government on the issue of the deletion of the column for religion from the new machine-readable passports.
| I'm really surprised that actually happened... |
The decision to hold protests was taken at the All Parties Khatam-e-Naboovat Conference held recently. MMA workers will demonstrate throughout the country to voice their opinions. The MMA will stage a protest rally at Abpara and senior MMA leaders including Hafiz Hussain Ahmed and Liaqat Baloch will incite it to riot address it, a press release said. The decision to hold the protest rally in Islamabad was taken at a meeting in which local leaders of the MMA participated. It was also decided in the meeting that the workers of the MMA would stage protest rallies at four different places in Rawalpindi. Addressing the meeting, Mian Muhammad Aslam, Member of the National Assembly of the MMA from Islamabad, said the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was also against the deletion of the religion column from the new passports. "The decision to delete the column is a continuation of the government's secular policies," he said. He added that the people of Pakistan would not accept these polices because they are part of an anti-Muslim campaign, which had started after the 9/11 incident.
| Anything secular is considered anti-Muslim. They think Islam is like ketchup, you can put it on everything. And I still expect the gummint to cave... |
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