 The US ambassador's offer to help the government stifle Majlis-e-Tahafuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat's movement is interference in Pakistan's internal affairs, said the MMA general secretary Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, and demanded the US government to recall him because he was "personae non gratae".
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Addressing a press conference on Monday, Ahmad said that American envoy Ryan C Crocker was lobbying to keep the religion column out of machine-readable passports. "All religious groups, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), will hold protests this Friday against the government's refusal to incorporate a religion column in passports." Earlier, he presided over a meeting of the Majlis-e-Tahafuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat at Lahore Press Club, where he criticised PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Religious Affairs and Minorities minister Ejazul Haq for breaking their promise to add the religion column. Ahmad said that the MMA would take out peaceful demonstrations throughout the country on Friday. "MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmed will lead demonstrations in Islamabad, secretary general Maulana Fazalur Rehman in Peshawar, Syed Munwar Hassan and Maulana Abdul Gafoor Haidri in Karachi and Liaqat Baloch in Lahore." |