KARACHI, Oct 24: The Defence Council for Pakistan and Afghanistan announced here on Wednesday that there will be no general strike on Friday and only peaceful rallies will be taken out from different parts of the city to gather at Old Exhibition roundabout for marching towards Tower.

A delegation of the member parties of the DCPA, on Wednesday, called on Sindh Home Secretary, IGP, and DIG Karachi, to apprise them of the planned million march against the US aggression.

Qari Muhammad Usman of the DCPA said that rallies from Keamari, Sultanabad, Sher Shah, Baldia town, SITE, Frontier Colony, Pathan Colony, Orangi Town and other localities of district West would gather at Habib Bank roundabout and would march towards old Exhibition roundabout through Pak Colony, Garden and Soldier Bazaar.

The processions from Nazimabad, North Karachi, New Karachi, Sohrab Goth, Federal B Area, Khamosh Colony, Liaquatabad and other localities of Karachi Central would gather at Petrol Pump roundabout.

The rallies from Patel Para, Lasbela, Old Vegetable Market, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Shah Faisal Colony, Korangi and other areas of district East have been asked to gather at Jail roundabout while the processions from Gulshan-i-Hadeed, Muzaffarabad Colony, Landhi, adjoining villages and other areas of Malir district would gather at Quaidabad and those of Lea Market, Lyari, Clifton, Azam Basti, Manzoor Colony and other areas of district South would gather at Saddar area and proceed to Old Exhibition for joining the main procession.

The IGP, Sindh, Syed Kamal Shah, has said that nobody would be allowed to disturb peace under the pretext of protest or expression of sentiments nor permitted to take out rally or march endangering law and order.

The IGP was talking to a delegation of Ulema, which called on him at the Central Police Office to discuss the proposed million march.

Home Secretary Sindh, Brig (retd) Mukhtar Ahmed, DIG Karachi, Tariq Jameel, and SSPs were present during the meeting.

The Home Secretary said that improvement of law and order, achieved in collaboration with the Ulema, would be maintained and the government would never permit any action threatening peace, law and order or loss of public or private properties.

The participants decided to meet again on Thursday at 3pm at the CPO to finalize a strategy for the march.— PPI