ISLAMABAD, March 19: Citizen’s Peace Committee (CPC) held a demonstration at Aabpara Chowk to register its concern over extremism and incidents of terrorism in the country.

Committee members, on Tuesday, urged the government to take strong action against the attackers on a church in the capital on Sunday.

They were holding placards with slogans against religious intolerance, extremism and incidents of terrorism.

They said extremism was endangering peace in the country and the region. They demanded of the government to launch “Jihad-i-Akbar” (crusade) against poverty and ignorance to root out threat of extremism once for all.

Demonstrators holding placards read “stop sectarian killings, curb obscurantism and extremism, stop religious carnage in India and Pakistan”.

They said that despite the tall claims of the government to root out terrorism, such incidents prove that the government had failed in protect the lives of citizens.—Agencies