ISLAMABAD. Pakistan: Protest Day was observed throughout the country including Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas against British implementation of conferment of title of ‘Sir’ to blasphemer Salman Rushdie and against a private TV channel for humiliating Amirul Momineen Khalifatul Muslimeen Hazrat Ali (A.S.) and pious Sahaba Kubaar on the call of Jamiat Ulema-e-Jafariya Pakistan.

The Khutaba in their Khutbaat at Juma congregations raised voice of protest and called upon the Islamic World, particularly the OIC to break their silence, come out their shackles and take courageous steps to thwart conspiracies against Islam and Muslims.

In the Federal Capital Islamabad, ulema displayed a protest demonstration in front of Press Club under the auspices of Jamiat Ulema-e-Jafariya Islamabad Wing in which a large number of citizens also participated. The demonstration was led by JUJP chief Allama Syed Mohsin Ali Hamdani and other ulema. The participants of the demonstration were carrying banners and placards inscribed with different protest slogans and portraits of Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi. They also chanted slogans against Britain and Dr. Israr. Addressing the demonstration, Allama Syed Mohsin Ali Hamdani said that colonial powers and their agents utilized all their energy on desecration of Anbia, Mursaleen and Swaleheen and were still doing so. Taghoot and her agents including Rushdie committed blasphemy sending a wave on resentment throughout the Islamic World while the British Queen supported them by conferring the title of ‘Sir’ on him adding fuel to the fire not only to Muslims but to the whole humanity. He said the British Queen should go to the church to seek forgiveness and take the title of ‘Sir’ back from Rushdie.

Allama Basharat Hussain Imami presented a resolution on this occasion which was unanimously adopted by the participants. The resolution made it clear that insult to Mashaheer and heroes of any religion or Millat are not only condemnable but are also a heinous conspiracy against unity at large against which religions all over the world should lodge a protest because protest is the basic right of every nation. The resolution called upon the OIC to summon an emergent session of the condemnable act of the British Queen and raise this issue of the Islamic World at the United Nations. The resolution demanded from the government of Pakistan to lodge a strong protest and get a resolution passed from the National Assembly and the Senate against this act.

Another resolution condemned a private TV channel named as Quran TV for uttering humiliating remarks against Muhafiz-e-Quran Khalifatul Muslimeen Hazrat Ali Ibne Abi Talib (A.S.) and demanded from the government to take strict exemplary action against Dr. Israr under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The resolution made it clear that colonial powers were behind those people and organisations who are committing humiliation against Mashaheer and Sha’air Allah, therefore, those who insult the Mashaheer should be dealt with strictly in Pakistan also because as per a saying of the Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, the nations at large are under the obligation to tighten the noose around Rushies inside and outside. The demonstrators also set the British flag on fire and later disperse peacefully chanting slogans.