LAHORE, May 11: Component parties of the All Pakistan Democratic Movement (APDM) and the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) will observe black day throughout the country on Monday (today) to condemn the killings of innocent citizens in Karachi on May 12, 2007, and April 9, 2008.

Protest rallies and seminars will be held at all provincial and district headquarters which will be addressed by the APDM and JI leaders.

Black flags will be hoisted on buildings and prayers will be offered for those who lost their lives during the violence perpetrated in Karachi on May 12, 2007 and April 9, 2008, allegedly by an ethnic organisation.

JI Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed and District Amir Syed Bilal Ahmed will address the protest rally to be held from Melody to Aabpara in Islamabad. APDM Convenor Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Abdul Haye Baloch, Jehanzeb Jamaldeeni and Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi will address a seminar at the Quetta Press Club.

JI Naib Amir Liaqat Baloch and Muhammad Hussain Maehnti will address a protest rally to be held from Empress Market to Regal Chowk in Karachi.

JI leaders Hafiz Salman Butt and Amirul Azim will address a protest demonstration to be held outside the Lahore Press Club.

JI NWFP Amir Sahabir Ahmed Khan and District Amir Sabir Hussain Awan will address a protest demonstration in Peshawar.

District Amir Rai Muhammad Akram Kharal and Mahbubuzamman Butt will address a protest rally in Ghanta Ghar Chowk in Faisalabad.

Announcing this here on Sunday, Qazi said that black day was being observed to mourn the killings of around 50 innocent citizens when Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry visited Karachi on May 12 last year and burning of a number of lawyers on April 9 this year.

Those demanding the inquiry of killing of Benazir Bhutto by the United Nations got the victims buried quietly and made the ethnic organisation responsible for the massacre, a coalition partner in Sindh government, he added.