Later on Monday, the authorities detained Junaid Babunagari, Hefajat-e-Islam's secretary general, in Dhaka for interrogation, though the group's spiritual leader, Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi, was allowed to leave the capital for Chittagong.
The move brought immediate criticism from Pakistan's main Islamic opposition party, Jamaat-e-Islami, whose secretary general, Syed Munawar Hasan, called the Gaza pullout a farce and said that Friday would be a day of protest and black flags in the streets.
A recently revealed e-mail shows the secretary general Jérôme Valcke saying that Qatar "bought" the 2022 World Cup.
MP is the President of the European Pathway Association, E-P-A [ http://www.E-P-A.org], KV is the Secretary General of E-P-A.
At the United Nations, Manoel de Almeida e Silva, deputy spokesman for Secretary General Kofi Annan, said, "There are a number of countries here that feel that certain issues are more controversial, have political implications for them, and which they are very sensitive about, and that certainly is the case with Tibet for China".
Raja Nasir Abbas, a Shiite leader who is the secretary general of the party Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, demanded a "ruthless operation against the Taliban" and declared that the "weak policies" of the government had "emboldened the terrorists".
Syed Munawar Hasan, secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest single religious party, said, "Pakistan must use its U.N. vote to foil the American intentions".
Controversy erupted after the second judgment, issued Feb. 5, found Abdul Qader Mollah, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, guilty and sentenced him to life in prison.
Kofi A. Annan, the United Nations secretary general, writes (Op-Ed, April 13) that at a recent Oslo meeting, donor countries pledged $4.5 billion in aid to Sudan, but "promises alone are not enough".
Liaqat Baloch, the secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's most organized Islamic political party, condemned the ruling, saying in a statement that "Salman Taseer had himself invited death by issuing blasphemous statements and the accused Mumtaz Qadri did not deserve death".
