RAWALPINDI, June 12 Hundreds of Anjuman Talba-e-Islam (ATI) and Sunni Tehrik (ST) activists took to Bainazir Bhutto Road (BBH) on Friday to protest the killing of prominent religious scholar Maulana Dr Sarfaraz Ahmed Naeemi in a suicide bomb blast in Lahore.

Traffic during all this exercise remained paralyzed on the main artery of the city. The protesters were chanting slogans against the killers of Dr Sarfaraz Naeemi and also against Taliban.

The rally started from 6th Road and concluded at Chandni Chowk after marching through Benazir Road. At the chowk the protesters set tyres to fire to register their strong protest. Protesters were also carrying placards inscribed with different slogans.

They also pasted anti-Talibanization posters at the main traffic signal at Chandni Chowk. Rally was led by Shabab-e-Islami Ameer Maulana Mufti Hanif Qureshi while participated by Maulana Ghufran Muhammad Sialvi, Maulana Shahid Mansoor and others.

Earlier, ATI also held a peaceful protest to condemn the death of the religious scholar outside Rawalpindi Islamabad Press Club (RIPC). ATI central president Syed Rashid Gardazi led the protest demonstration while district nazim Khuram Sahi, general secretary Malik Mudasir, city nazim Iftikhar Ahmed, Wasim Janjua, Mujahid Kiyani and many others participated in the protest.—Our Reporter