Not exactly as kaledioscopic as most Anti War rallies but then Pakistani political rallies are usually aggressive!
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Last Updated: Sunday, 30 March, 2003, 18:40 GMT 19:40 UK
Pakistanis hold biggest demo yet
There has been another big anti-war demonstration in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Estimates put the crowds at between 100,000 and 150,000 - making it the biggest rally in Pakistan since the war began just over a week ago.
People arrived in buses, tractors and horse-drawn carts for the march.
They blocked the Peshawar-Islamabad road for more than two kilometres, chanting slogans and burning effigies of US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Children in military uniform carrying toy guns took part in the march, along with protestors carrying posters of the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.
“The US is heading for a collapse, it will meet the same fate which the Soviet Union faced in Afghanistan,” said local political leader Shabbir Ahmed.
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“We will destroy America. We will fight jihad against America. I will be the first to die,” he said.
Peshawar is seen as the heartland of an alliance of radical Islamic parties, but opposition to the war is shared across the social and political spectrum.
There has been a call for a boycott of American goods.
The Pakistani government has deplored what it calls the destruction of fellow Muslims and their country.