The Jamaat-e-Islami has branded the Women’s Protection Bill (WPB) an “anti-religion enactment seeking to appease the USA”. The JI demanded that the bill be withdrawn immediately, and warned that if Dr Abdul Qadeer’s detention led to the loss of his life, “nobody could save the rulers from the wrath of the Pakistani people”. In the JI central shoora’s resolutions on amendments in Hudood laws, Dr Abdul Qadeer and the Balochistan issue, the party said that Islamabad’s insistence on a “military solution” to problems in Balochistan proved that the government was “fulfilling the agenda of anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam. An apex policy meeting of the JI body has been in session since November 4 at the party’s headquarters in Mansoorah. Qazi Hussain Ahmad presided over the Monday session, which adopted several other resolutions as well. In the resolution on Hudood laws, the JI shoora said that various amendments in the name of women’s protection were being made “in line with US dictates available on the State Department website”. The resolution on Balochistan inked a detailed recipe of how to tackle problems in deprived provinces, with a special emphasis on the equal distribution of resources among federating units.