Difa-e-Pakistan Council opposed to anti-terror alliance with Washington announced on Monday plans to march on the Afghan border to pressure the government into closing NATO supply routes.
Around 30,000 protestors converged on Islamabad after a “long march” to protest the reopening of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan.
They gathered outside parliament to chant anti-US slogans and wave the banners of the Defence of Pakistan Council which organised the march from Lahore.
“This long march is against the Crusade (against US) and the Jews. This movement will continue and we will now focus on the areas from where the supply goes to NATO forces in Afghanistan,” the chairman of the coalition Maulana Samiul Haq told the crowd.
“We will now stage a long march from Quetta to Chaman on July 14-15 and Peshawar to Torkham on July 16-17,” he announced.
Islamabad agreed to reopen overland routes to NATO convoys last week after a seven-month blockade sparked by a botched US air raid on a border post that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba blamed for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, also present at the protest, urged Pakistanis to stand up against the slavery to US.
“Pakistan’s original problem is slavery to the US. We don’t accept it, We want freedom,” he said.
The Defence of Pakistan coalition has attracted large turnouts at recent rallies across the country, which some see as a build up to the formation of a political party to contest the next general election, widely expected within the next year.
Coalition chairman Maulana Samiul Haq told a rally on Sunday before the convoy of buses, trucks and cars left Lahore on the 275-kilometre (170-mile) journey to the capital that the movement would continue until Islamabad severed all ties with the US and NATO.
Outside parliament on Monday evening the crowd chanted slogans including “Death to the USA” and one speaker called for the arrest of the CIA chief in Pakistan.
Pakistan is doubling the capacity for NATO trucks at a key border crossing, officials said Monday, to speed up processing for an expected influx of supplies for troops in Afghanistan.
Earlier on Monday, gunmen killed six soldiers and a police officer at a camp close to Islamabad hours after the march had passed through the area.
People of Pakistan are not with these terrorists. If they think otherwise, they can once again test their popularity by contesting next elections. These Mullahs can never understand the dynamics of 21st century. Allama Iqbal prophetically proclaimed : DIN-I-MULLAH FASAAD FI SABILILLAH. Let these golden words be repeated again and again so that they are ingrained in the mind of every Pakistani. The only job of this class is to wrongly exploit religious sentiments of the common man and enjoy chandas they collect.
Rastey main sat fojion ka khon kar ke ayen hai ye terrrorists.
As I look at the picture above,I think its a very good target for a drone hit,wish someone would crush all these terrorists in the above pic.
The biggest problem in the progress of Pakistan are these Mullas and molana fazal ur rehman. Mr Shahid comment is 100% right
For pakistan to go down you do not need external enemy. your own terrorists are more than enough. In pakistan, North to south, west to east , news is only about killing by this group and that group. The rulers were following the policy of gaurding the milk and as well as playing with the cat. how can that be possible. Tell Mr zardari ti produce some magic to contain these sunamies
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