Pir M Afzal Qadri among 200 rounded up from Lahore Railway Station

LAHORE: Police arrested Pir Muhammad Afzal Qadri, Central Ameer of World Tanzeem Ahl-e-Sunnat and his 200 associates from Lahore Railway Station prior to their leading a peaceful Namoos-e-Risalat (SAW) train march (from Lahore to Rawalpindi) on Monday.

Pir Muhammad Afzal Qadri had to present the future strategy regarding Namoos-e-Risalat (SAW) rallies besides declaration during his address to the participants of the march on Rawalpindi Railway Station

But police rounded him up before the starting of Namoos-e-Risalat (SAW) march.

Report said that hundreds of activists, who were moving toward Lahore Railway Station for participating in Namoos-e-Risalat (SAW) train march, had been taken in custody from different areas.

On the occasion of his arrest, Pir Muhammad Afzal Qadri told reporters that publication of blasphemous cartoons was the worst attack on Muslims faith by anti-Islam forces, therefore Muslim Ummah would have to take every possible measure to prevent such acts by non-Muslims in future.

He said that government should withdraw the amendment in Blasphemy Act-295/3 and make it clear to the world that the publication of sacrilegious caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is intolerable for Muslims.

Qadri said that Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) should also convene an emergency meeting and conduct legislation to prevent such blasphemous acts.

He said that government should also urge United Nations for legislation in this regard.

He said those who published blasphemous cartoons must be severely punished.

Those who arrested include Allama Maulana Nasrullah Qadri, Maulana Abid Hussain, Maulana Muhammad Aftab Noshahi, Maulana Muhammad Javed, Maulana Qari Shahzad Ahmed Qadri, Maulana Ghulam Murtaza, Qazi Muhammad Mushtaq, Qari Ahmed Raza, Sahibzada Kamran Mehmood, Maulana Muhammad Shiraz, Qari Muhammad Ashraf, Maulana Nasir Abbas, Muhammad Safdar, Muhammad Aslam, Syed Zakir Hussain Shah, Qari Ihsanullah, Hafiz Zaheer Abbas, Shoaib Rasool Mustafai Maulana, Ghulam Mustafa Maulana, Faisal Mehmood Maulana, Ahmed Kamal, Maulana Hussain Ahmed, Muhammad Sufan, Syed Munawar Hussain Shah, Qari Muhammad Irfan, Qari Zahid Iqbal, Muhammad Iqbal, Maulana Shabbir Hussain Sahi, Qari Muhammad Munir, Khuram Shahzad, Ibrar Hussain, Saqib Azeem, Waqar Ali, Qari Amir Saleem, Khan Asmatullah Khan, Muhammad Zaman, Allama Muhammad Usman, Abdul Jabbar, Usman Ali, Muhammad Bilal, Amir Irfan, Muhammad Rayasat, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Anis ur Rehman Hashmi Maulana, Wasim Abbas, Hafiz Muhammad Maqsood, Sahibzada Khililur Rehman, Tassadiq Hussain, Abdul Jabbar, Imran Hashmi, Ashiq Hussain, Muhammad Younis, Muhammad Afzal, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Syed Rehmat Ali Shah and others.