[Dawn] Protest rallies called by the Jamaat-i-Islami across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
on Friday to condemn US raid on a compound in Abbottabad to kill the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
failed to attract people in large numbers.
In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, a rally was taken out from Mahabat Khan Mosque after Friday prayers, which was attended by less then 100 people.
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, a great sympathiser of the Taliban and Bin Laden, instead of holding rallies confined its activities to the party affiliated mosques where speakers condemned the incident in their sermons.
A blurb issued in Peshawar said the party leaders and Learned Elders of Islam flayed the US aggression and `meaningful silence` of the government and state institutions over the incident.
ABBOTTABAD:
On the call of the JI, a protest rally was taken out here after Friday prayers to condemn the US action. The rally started from main Fawara Chowk and after passing through the bazaar ended at Jinnah Chowk.
People from different walks of life attended the rally chanting slogans against the US and Pak government.
Provincial chief of JI Senator Professor Ibrahim, who was leading the rally, while addressing the people declared that the raid was carried out to improve the popularity of US president Barack
B.O.Obama.
Professor Ibrahim questioned the capabilities of Pak Army, "which is said to be one of the strongest armies in the world". He asked President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to step down after what he described a shameful act.
SWABI:
A protest demonstration was held in Swabi town against the US raid, demanding that the US should stop meddling in country`s internal affairs. The demonstration attended by some 400 people was led by the party provincial naib amir Mushtaq Ahmad Khan and Mohammad Usman, a former MNA.
The protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the US and demanded expulsion of what they said US secret agents from Pakistain.
Swabi district union of journalists also offered funeral prayers of Osama bin Laden in absentia.
The journalists gathered in the district headquarters and marched to Kernel Sher Khan Chowk chanting slogans against the Americans and calling for stoppage of their meddling in the internal affairs of Pakistain.
LOWER DIR:
JI workers came on the roads in different parts of Lower Dir to protest against the American Special Forces` attack and demanded of the government to explain country`s actual policy to the nation. The demonstration was led by JI central leader Sirajul Haq. Protests were also held at Koto, Samar Bagh and Chakdara.
KOHAT:
The Pasban Movement staged a protest in front of Hangu Press Club to condemn the killing of Osama bin Laden in a covert operation and blamed the Pakistain secret agency for allowing the intrusion of US helicopters inside the country.
The president of Pasban Movement, Hangu, Alamzada Orakzai, and secretary Riaz in their speeches regretted that the government had failed in stopping the massacre of innocent rustics in drone attacks by the US. They said the masses, especially the Pakhtuns, were being ruled since 1947 as slaves.
They demanded that the government should accept its responsibility and weakness, which had resulted in violation of country`s illusory sovereignty time and again.