ISLAMABAD: Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) announced to end its hunger strike camp against targeted killings set up outside the National Press Club on Sunday.

MWM secretary general Allama Raja Nasir Abbas held the hunger strike for 87 days. The party decided that the hunger strike camp would be converted into a protest camp in which MWM leaders would sit on a rotation basis.

The party also decided to hold a sit-in outside the Punjab chief minister house on September 2.

The announcements were made at a `Protection of Pakistan conference` held on Jinnah Avenue on the 28th death anniversary of Allama Arif Hussain Al Hussaini, who was assassinated in August 1988.

Speaking on the occasion, Allama Nasir Abbas said a conspiracy had been hatched to kill educated people, professionals, poets and army officers to weaken the country.

`Unfortunately, this conspiracy was made during the Afghan war. Shias and Sunnis have never attacked police and army officials.

The nation wants to know who was behind the idea of creating armed groups (Lashkars). Those who created the terrorists should also be brought to justice.

He said the people of the country had pinned high hopes in the National Action Plan (NAP) but it was disappointing that NAP was diverted towards one segment of society.

`People were deprived of their basic rights and in Gilgit-Baltistan private land was being confiscated. Moreover, state departments were used against us,` he said.

Allama Amin Shaheedi said the gathering of such a huge crowd showed that no segment of society can be deprived of their basic rights.

Hussain Al Hussaini, the son of Arif Hussain, said his father believed in the unity of the Muslims.

`It is the need of the time to address conflicts among the Muslims,` he added.

Though traffic on Jinnah Avenue remained suspended during the conference, the metro bus service remained operational.

MWM coordinator Syed Hasnain Naqvi told that as chairs had to be placed on the road from Green Plaza to Kulsum Plaza, it was not possible to ensure the flow of traffic on the road.

`We had requested the police to arrange an alternative route for the traffic. However, we had also assured the administration that there would be no disturbance to the metro bus service as we never get involved in violence. Chairs were placed on both sides of the metro bus route on Jinnah Avenue and the bus service continued throughout the day,` he said.