Massive protests over Zawahiri attack (US attack on Pakistan town)

[Bhaisahab]

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=86021

ISLAMABAD, JANUARY 15 : Islamic groups across Pakistan staged massive protests on Sunday condemning President Pervez Musharraf and the US for the deadly air strikes in a remote border village that were intended to target Al-Qaeda No 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Thousands of people chanting anti-US slogans took part in rallies in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar. The country’s main Islamist alliance, Muttahida Majlis Amal, took out protest rallies in the port city of Karachi condemning the missile attack.

Significantly, pro-Musharraf party and ally, the MQM, also took part in the rally. The marches were held in the backdrop of Musharraf’s appeal to his countrymen not to harbour foreign militants. “If we kept sheltering foreign terrorists here, our future will not be good,” Musharraf said in an address broadcast by state-run PTV.

“We want Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to cancel his visit to the US as a protest,” deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Prof Ghafoor told the rally. Aziz is scheduled to pay a week-long visit to the US from January 17.

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