LAHORE, March 31: The Lahore Bar Association on Monday took out a protest procession on The Mall to condemn the attack on Iraq.

Effigies of the US president and the British prime minister were burnt by demonstrators along with the coffin of the UN. The demonstrators chanted slogans and demanded forthwith withdrawal of military forces from Iraq. Heavy police contingent remained on The Mall during the procession.

In his address, Lahore Bar Association’s president Mansoorur Rehman Khan Afridi alleged that UN’s role had been reduced to that of a subservient organization of the US. It has become a dead organization with no use to needy countries, he alleged. The LBA president demanded that the Muslim countries should form their own body to defend their mutual interests instead of further relying on the UN.