LAHORE, Aug 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) held a symbolic demonstration outside the Press Club here on Tuesday against US firing on Pakistani troops on Afghanistan border.

The demonstrators, carrying placards and banners, chanted slogans against the US as well as its ‘stooges.’

In a statement read out on the occasion, MMA vice-president Qazi Husain Ahmad condemned the US attack in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed and said due to “wrong” policies of Gen Musharraf, western borders of the country had become insecure.

He said the regret shown by the government on the incident and terming it a result of a “misunderstanding” by the ISPR was an inadequate step and demanded that all officials of US agencies deployed at airports and other places in the country should be removed.

Regretting that the US army which had been provided help in attacking Muslims in Afghanistan was now killing Pakistani soldiers, the Qazi said the act had exposed nefarious designs of the United States.

He appealed to the masses to participate in the Aug 14 public meeting of the MMA to express hatred against the pro-US rulers and bring the country back to the path of democracy.

Mian Maqsood Ahmad, Ehsanullah Waqas, Saifullah Saif and Abdul Ghaffar Aziz also spoke on the occasion.