IJT stages anti-US rally

Published October 4, 2003

PESHAWAR, Oct 3: Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba here on Friday organized a rally at the University of Peshawar to express their anger over the US intervention in the internal affairs of all Muslim countries, said a press release.

The procession started from the Islamia College and reached the Students Teachers Centre after parading through various routes in campus.

The students shouted slogans against the US and its allies and said that the US was targeting all Muslim states to implement its New World Order.

IJT campus chief Abidur Rehman, while addressing the students, said that the United States was using Pakistani land for the fulfilment of its nefarious designs.

He said that a three-day conference to be held in Lahore from Oct 18 at Punjab University would prove a landmark achievement in the awakening of the Muslims against infidel forces.

PMA HAILS VERDICT: The Pakistan Medial Association (PMA) Centre has appreciated the verdict of the anti-terrorism court in Dr Farooq Hilal’s murder case and termed it a victory of the truth.

In a statement issued here on Friday, PMA Central President Dr Umar Ayub Khan said that the court verdict giving death sentence to the killer was the vindication of the stand taken by the the doctor community at the Ayub Medical College.

Dr Khan demanded of the government to implement the court’s decision in letter and in spirit to make it an example for those who believed in violation of the law.