KARACHI: Rally against Israeli raids, assassination of Turabi
KARACHI, July 18: Hundreds of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal workers on Tuesday held a protest demonstration at Empress Market in protest against the assassination of Allama Hassan Turabi on Friday last, besides Israeli aggression against innocent Palestinians and Lebanese.
The call for observing protest demonstrations all over Sindh was given by the MMA leaders to condemn the death of their colleague and senior leader Allama Hassan Turabi in an explosion in Karachi and Israeli attacks on Muslims and killing of Palestinians and Lebanese.
Protesting MMA workers were carrying banners and placards, inscribed with demands for an end to bloodshed of Ulema and political workers in Karachi, dismissal of the Sindh government, restoration of peace in the city, besides arrest of Allama Hassan Turabi's assassins.
They also chanted slogans against President General Pervez Musharraf, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the Sindh Governor and the home minister, the United States, Israel and Western powers supporting Israel, and urged the Muslims to respond to Israeli aggression in a united and firm manner.
On the occasion, US and Israeli flags were torched by protestors amid slogans of Israeli and US destruction at the hands of Mujahideen.
Speaking to protesters, Prof Ghafoor Ahmed, senior MMA leader and Naib Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami, paid rich tribute to Allama Hassan Turabi for his efforts for unification of Muslims and condemned government's attitude towards security of Ulema and political leadership, criticizing its policies.
Condemning Israeli aggression against innocent Palestinians and Lebanese, he said that the United States and its Western allies were equally responsible for bloodshed as they were not only justifying attacks on unarmed Muslims in Palestine and Lebanon, but were doing the same in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He also criticized the Islamic heads of states, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and the UN for “keeping a mum” over bloodshed of Muslims all over the world.
JI Karachi Amir Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui alleged that US agents were killing Ulema of both Shia and Sunni schools of thought in Karachi to divide Muslims on sectarian basis and prevent them from launching a joint campaign for implementation of Islamic system of governance in the country.
Several other leaders, including Allama Nazir Abbas Naqvi of the Shia Ulema Council, JUP's Siddique Rathore, Sindh President of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Zubair Khan, Mufti Kifayatullah and Afzal Sardar of Jamiat Ahle Hadith, MMA MPA Younus Barai, Basharat Mirza of PDP, Kauser Zaidi of Shia Ulema Council and Mufti Mohammad Yousuf Qusuri also spoke.—PPI
KARACHI, July 18: Hundreds of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal workers on Tuesday held a protest demonstration at Empress Market in protest against the assassination of Allama Hassan Turabi on Friday last, besides Israeli aggression against innocent Palestinians and Lebanese.
