KARACHI: A big angry crowd of Pakistanis and Kashmiris yesterday staged a demonstration in Karachi to protest against the Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and failure of the United Nations to implement its decisions on the Kashmir issue, hanging fire for the last 18 years. The rally was jointly sponsored by the Inter-Collegiate Body, Democratic Students Federation, All-Jammu and Kashmir Students Federation, Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, Kashmir Liberation League and Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front, Karachi.

The demonstrators, carrying placards assembled in front of the US Ambassador’s residence on Bonus Road where they were cordoned off by a large Police force.

They shouted slogans of “Down with Indian imperialism” and “Down with American imperialism”, “We want immediate end of Indian atrocities on innocent Kashmiris,” “Kashmir Revolutionary Council Zindabad”, “Sheikh Abdullah Zindabad” and “Lifeless United Nations Murdabad”.

The demonstrators later staged a rally in front of the UN Agency Office in the WPIDC building where a six-member deputation handed over a four-page memorandum to UN Secretary-General U Thant.

The demonstrators also offered Ghaibana Namaz-i-Janaza in the mosque on Bonus Road for those who have sacrificed their lives in [the] struggle for freedom in occupied Kashmir.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Belgrade by agencies,] nearly 1,000 scientists from 70 countries are this weekend heading for Belgrade to discuss one of the world’s biggest problems — population growth. From today [Aug 30] till Sept 10, during the Second World Population Congress, they will grapple with the very acute problems facing developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, whose populations in many cases could double in 23 years. Present statistics show that the world population is increasing at the rate of 1.9 per cent a year.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2015

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