PESHAWAR, Nov 1: Civil society organizations in the NWFP are preparing themselves to take out a national peace rally on Nov 6 in Rawalpindi.

Under the umbrella of the joint action committee (JAC), the NWFP and the Sarhad NGOs Ittehad (SNI), efforts are being made to attract the maximum number of peace-loving people to gather in Rawalpindi on Nov 6.

In its recent meeting, the JAC decided to take part in the   anti-war and anti-US rally in which a large number of SNI members are also likely to participate.

According to the schedule, participants from the NWFP will try to reach Liaqautbagh, Rawalpindi, from where the rally will start.

Some of the members vowed to visit Rawalpindi as per the schedule even if the government did not allow them to hold the rally.

JAC members, belonging to different segments of civil society, said at the meeting that continuous bombing on Afghan civilians was a crime against humanity, and called upon the US and its allies to stop it.

War was not a solution to any problem and ultimate victims of any war were innocent civilians.

The anti-war groups have been holding demonstrations across the country since the US air strikes on Afghanistan started on Oct 7.

In the past couple of days, some of the pro-peace activists e-mailed messages to the White House, calling upon the Bush administration to stop the war immediately.

They said Afghanistan had already been devastated due to the 22-year-long war and that nothing was left there for the allied forces to destroy except mud houses and tents of the Afghan people.