Scores of people took to streets after Friday prayers in Karachi, protesting the senseless slaughter the citizens said Egypt’s military was subjecting its nation to. A massive protest was held at Gurumandir and the demonstrators walked to the mausoleum of Quaide Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The protest also sported a funeral service for all the citizens who perished in Egypt following the army’s operation against its own citizens.
Thousands of Karachities, carrying placards and banners inscribed with anti-dictatorial slogans, chanted slogans against General Sissi of Egypt, who last month toppled the elected government of Dr Mohamed Mursi, the first president of Egypt following the 2011 revolution.
Addressing the rally, Jamaate Islami leader Dr Meraj Siddiqui termed the bloodshed a needed foundation for a great Islamic revolution in the middle-East. He said that the Egyptian army, led by general Sissi, targeted innocent, unarmed protestors, who were only demanding democracy, peace and constitutional rights for their country.
He said that Egypt’s army not only targeted its own people with live ammunition but also destroyed field hospitals, established by the Muslim Brotherhood. He said that the army also assaulted a mosque and set it ablaze.
Karachi JI Chief Hussain Mehnati addressing the crowd said that General Sissi had toppled an elected government at the behest of the United States.
He said that it was a matter of concern that a civilized nation had been subjected to the foul interests of a foreign power which had no care for the choice of the people and had destroyed democracy when its interests were eclipsed upon by a country’s religious demands.
