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Religious, political parties rally against US | ||
2011-10-02 | ||
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They were holding banners and placards and shouting slogan against the increasing US influence in the region. The people also set on fire the American flag on the occasion.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the workers of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistain (Noorani) also held a rally at Sher Shah Suri Road. The participants holding banners and placards marched on the road and raised anti-US slogans. The activists of Pakistain Patriotic Movement also held a rally at Sher Shah Suri Road near Cantonment Railways Station and set on fire effigy of US President B.O.. They were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans in support of Pakistain army. CHARSADDA: The activists of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistain blocked the main Charsadda road at Farooq Azam Chowk to lodge protest against US threats. The workers and local leaders erupted into the streets soon after the Friday prayers. The protesters, holding placards and banners, were raising anti-American slogans to express their anguish over the remarks of US Admiral Mike Mullen. Addressing the rally, the JUI leaders including former MNA and party district amir Maulana Gohar Shah, former MNA Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq, Fakhar Alam Khan, Maulana Arif and others said that America had once again challenged the ego of Mohammedans and insulting Pakistain to justify attacks. MARDAN: JUI-F and JUP on Friday organised separate rallies after Friday prayers and lashed out at American demands for action against Haqqani network. Both the rallies of religious parties were led by its leaders including former MPA Maulana Tajul Amin Jabal and Maulana Qaisaruddin of JUI-F and provincial secretary general and district president of JUP Mohammad Fayaz Khan and Qari Abdul Hadi. On the occasion, the religious leaders said that America was the biggest terrorist of the world which had been exporting terrorism to other countries of the world. | ||
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Afghanistan/South Asia |
'Sinful' TV sets torched in northwest Pakistan |
2005-07-30 |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Hundreds of Muslims in Pakistan's staunchly conservative northwest have set ablaze dozens of TV sets following a cleric's ruling that watching television was a sin, police said Saturday. The men congregated in a park after Friday prayers and piled up about 25 TV sets, doused them with fuel and set them on fire, said witnesses from the Charsadda district of the North West Frontier Province near the Afghan border. "These people actually responded to a cleric's call," said district police chief Muhammad Iqbal, after a local mullah had said on radio that watching TV was a sin and declared a jihad or holy war against vulgarity and obscenity. The park echoed with shouts of "Allah-o-Akbar" (God is greatest) and "Islam zindabad" (long live Islam), while the emotional crowd also decried an ongoing crackdown on suspected extremists following the London bombings. Parliamentarian Maulana Gohar Shah addressed the crowd and called the 800 arrests and series of raids on Islamic seminaries ordered by President Pervez Musharraf a "conspiracy of the infidel (non-believer) world". A local journalist said that, days earlier, influential local cleric Abdullah Shah had decreed that TV was "not allowed in Islam" after followers had asked him to give an Islamic ruling. |
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