LARKANA, April 2: A complete shutter-down strike was observed on Wednesday in the city on the call of the Jamiat Ulema-i- Pakistan and Jamiat Ahl-e-Sunnat to express solidarity with the people of Iraq.

All business and trade centres remained shut while different processions were taken out by hundred of the JUP and the Jamiat Ahl-e-Sunnat workers, led by divisional president of the JUP Hafiz Ahmed Ali Abbasi, Syed Ashique Shah Jilani and Manzoor Ahmed Mashori.

Protesters converged on the Jinnahbagh after marching on the main roads of the city.

They also burnt effigies of US President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair besides setting a US flag afire.

Condemning the US-led attack on Iraq, speakers on the occasion, termed it aggression against a Muslim country and urged the government to revise its foreign policy vis-a-vis the US, calling for severing its diplomatic ties with the US if it did not halt the attack.