The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) will observe Dr Aafia Day on September 16 to highlight the need for Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s release and to express solidarity with the families of missing people. Protest meetings on the detention of Dr Aafia will be held on the day outside press clubs in all major cities and JI leaders will address the meetings in their respective areas.
JI chief Syed Munawar Hassan will address the protest rally outside Karachi Press Club, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch will address the protest meeting at Islamabad Press Club, JI Deputy Secretary General Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha will address at the Lahore Press Club, JI Deputy Chief Sirajul Haq will address the Peshawar rally and JI Baluchistan chief Abdul Mateen Akhundzada will address the Quetta protest meeting.