JI's countrywide protests today

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Siraj-ul-Haq on Thursday demanded a judicial probe into the controversial amendment to the Khatm-e-Nabooat law and announced his party's decision to hold protests across the country on the 12th of Rabiul Awwal as a "yaum-e-Azm-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabooat" today (Friday). He told a press conference that his party will observe the day to show its resolve to expose the perpetrators of the amendment. He also invited the public to join the Jamaat-e-Islami in a struggle for a peaceful Islamic revolution.
"The resignation of a minister is not enough and the nation wants to know the names of all those behind the conspiracy," he said. He asked the government to disclose the names of mastermind of the amendment and their supporters. He said that US Defence Secretary was due to arrive in Pakistan on Sunday while the superpower has been asking the country to carry out amendment to the law. He asked the government to say a clear no to the arriving US government official on the issue.
Criticizing the government for the prolonged sit-in in Faizabad, he said that the protestors' demands should have been accepted soon after they were raised. He said that it is the government's responsibility to take "visible" measures to defuse the prevailing tension in the country. He said that the government is covering up the report of PML-N leader Raja Mohammad Zafarul Haq because it contains some "big names."
According to Sirajul Haq, it was not the army's decision to intervene in the Faizabad crisis as it had engaged the protestors on the call of the federal government. The issue took some bad turns since the federal government failed to fulfil its responsibilities. He also asked the Senate committee, which is being chaired by MQM's Nasreen Jalil, to drop its recommendations regarding amendments to the blasphemy law.
Pakistan was established in the name of Islam, the Jamaat leader said, but in the last seven decades the country has failed to implement that decision in letter and spirit.