ISLAMABAD, March 24: Hundreds of students from different educational institutions here on Monday staged a protest demonstration against the US and the war in Iraq.

The demonstration was organized jointly by the students of Khaldunia High School and Citizen’s Peace Committee on Jinnah Avenue at China Chowk.

However, students from a number of other educational institutions also joined the demonstration.

Interestigly, the students from a religious madrassah, located close to the venue of the demonstration, also turned up. First they watched the whole thing and then decided to become part of the protest.

The students were far more disciplined in display of their emotions and feelings towards the US attack on Iraq and towards the pain and miseries which the war inflicted on human beings.

Instead of raising slogans or showing any hostile gestures, these students quietly formed a long queue while displaying the posters and plycards they were carrying inscribed with slogans and demands in words or visuals.

The posters, banners and plycards the students were displaying were inscribed with anti-war and anti-US slogans.

The demonstration was unique in the sense that the participating students represented two extremes of the society. The students, who organised the demonstration, belonged to the educational institutions where only the children of elite can afford to take admission, while a big number of students were from a religious madrassah, where they are imparted free education.