HYDERABAD: At a rally of all wings of the Pakistan Peoples Party held outside the local press club on Thursday, all Muslim countries were urged to observe a strike against the ongoing aggression by Israeli forces against unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza and carrying out massacres every day since the start of the aerial and ground offensives.

Protest rallies and demonstrations were held in different parts of Sindh by people from all walks of life who urged the United Nations to take action against Israel over war crimes and immediate measures to stop the massacre of Palestinians.

Participants in the PPP rally, carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against Israel, the United States and its allies.

He said that around 1,000 rallies would be brought out in the country, about 300 of them in Sindh on Friday, which was being observed as Al Quds Day across the Muslim world.

The Fundamental Rights Commission of Pakistan (FRCP) also held a protest demonstration outside the press club against Israeli brutalities.

They raised slogans against the US, UN and Israel and burnt their flags.

PPP leaders Haider Shahani, Ahsan Abro, Lal Bukhsh Kalhoro and others urged the federal government to review its foreign policy in order to forcefully raise its voice against the aggression and mobilise

all channels to make a joint move with all Islamic states to stop killing of Arabs by the Zionist regime at once.

They also appealed to international rights organisations, besides the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League (AL), to play their due role in this regard.

MWM slams ‘discreet silence’

Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen Sindh general secretary Mukhtiar Ahmed Imami, along with other party leaders Maulana Imdad Nasimi and Noor Hassan, held a press conference at the local press club to condemn a ‘discreet silence’ adopted by the UN, OIC, AL and heads of Muslim states over the use of military might against unarmed Palestinians in Gaza.

He criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his indifferent attitude toward the catastrophic situation and feeling no pain over the sufferings of the Ummah.

He Israel should be put in the dock in the international court of justice like others who had committed genocide of nations.

He called for expelling Israel from the UN.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2014