Ofcourse, as was expected, protests in NWFP and Quetta… With known religous a holes making their side clear…
Hope govt can fix these dogs quickly before other terrorsits get involved…
Thousands protest against Lal Masjid battle
PESHAWAR ( 2007-07-03 22:20:39 ) :
Thousands of Pakistani staged protests on Tuesday against what they said was a government crackdown on an Islamabad mosque in which nine people were killed.
More than 3,000 religious students chanting slogans against President Pervez Musharraf rallied in the conservative northern town of Mingora to denounce the violence at the Lal Masjid, witnesses said.
“The government must stop the operation against Lal Masjid,” local religious leader Maulana Fazal Ullah told the rally.
Another 250 people burned tyres and blocked a main road for half an hour in the south-western city of Quetta, near the border with Afghanistan.
“The government is targeting the madrassas to appease the Americans,” MP and protest leader Maulana Noor Mohammad said.
Musharraf is a key ally in the US-led “war on terror” but his support for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan to topple the Taliban in 2001 has angered people across Pakistan.
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of Pakistan’s main alliance of hard-line parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, or United Action Front, said the incident would cause nation-wide unrest.
“We condemn this ill-conceived act which will bring disaster and anarchy to the country,” the MMA chief told a party gathering in the central city of Muzaffargarh.
Ahmed also backed the Taliban-style anti-vice campaign launched by the students of the radical Lal Masjid and its accompanying female seminary, Jamia Hafsa.
Female and male students attached to the mosque in June kidnapped seven Chinese nationals, including six women, accusing them of running a brothel in Islamabad.
“The Jamia Hasfa management was demanding the elimination of centres of evil,” he said.
Maulana Fazalur Rehman, leader of the parliamentary opposition and a senior member of the MMA, said the actions of the security forces were “an abortive attempt to suppress the voice against obscenity, vulgarity, indecency.”
He said that the government must resolve the problem through talks.
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