KARACHI, Oct 9: Speakers at a protest meeting, organized by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and Pak-Afghan Defence Council on Tuesday, vowed to fight against the “US-British aggression” on Afghanistan.

They condemned the allied forces bombing on innocent civilians, and said the forces which have joined the US to “eliminate Muslims” could not do so.

“The US and its allies cannot save themselves from a historic defeat in Afghanistan,” said the participants of the rally held at Banaras Chowk.

They participants of the demonstration were holding banners and portraits of Osama bin Laden, and were chanting anti-US and anti-Gen Musharraf slogans.

They burned the effigy of US President Bush and the US flags and their speeches were punctuated with the pro-Taliban and Afghanistan slogans.

The speakers castigated the Pakistan government for detaining the JUI leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, chief of PADC Maulana Sami-ul-Haq and the leader of Sipah-i-Sahaba Azam Tariq and said the government had been facilitating the US to prolong its rule.

The speakers claimed that the imposed war on Afghanistan was not a war against Mulla Omar Mujahid, Osama bin Laden, but it was a war between infidels and Islam.

“Our rulers have hurt the sentiments of the Ummah as they have extended support to the US and facilitated it to utilize its airports for attacks on Kabul for the sake of dollars. They have put the security and prestige of the country at stake”.

They advised the rulers “to come out of their shells otherwise the US would get foothold in Pakistan and might set up its bases”.