PAKISTAN: Pakistani Islamists rally in support of Egypt's ousted president Mursi

Record ID: 214007

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Pakistani Islamists rally in support of Egypt's ousted president Mursi
  • Date: 7th July 2013
  • Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JULY 7, 2013) (REUTERS) ACTIVISTS AND SUPPORTERS OF JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI (JI) PARTY MARCHING. CHANTING AND HOLDING BANNERS, PLACARDS, FLAGS AND PICTURES OF OUSTED EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MOHAMED MURSI, BEARDED MAN CHANTING "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION" JI LEADERS WITH PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING "ANY FRIEND OF AMERICA IS A TRAITOR" PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNERS MARCHING, ONE BANNER READING "PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT RECOGNISE EGYPT'S MILITARY REGIME" TWO ELDERLY PROTESTERS CHANTING ISLAMIC SLOGANS DEMONSTRATORS WAVING JI FLAGS PROTESTERS MARCHING PROTESTERS CHANTING "GOD IS GREATEST" DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING PICTURES OF MURSI MARCHING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS STEPPING UPON PICTURES OF EGYPTIAN ARMY CHIEF GENERAL ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISI AND CARETAKER PRESIDENT ADLI MANSOUR CHIEF OF JI PARTY ADDRESSING PROTESTERS / BANNER ON STAGE READING "WE STRONGLY CONDEMN THE MILITARY COUP AGAINST AN ELECTED DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT" CROWD (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHIEF OF JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI, SYED MUNAWAR HASSAN, SAYING: "In fact this is the Americans, their game, they have played their game. And I don't think the things that happened that many Muslim rulers, be they kings and monarchs or be they dictatorial regimes, they have also welcomed (the coup), that clearly narrates the whole story, that this is a coup which is being inspired by dictators, by monarchs and by their generation. So, in fact, we are with president Mursi and we shall remain with him. He was a popular leader and he is a popular leader." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SETTING FIRE TO PICTURES OF EGYPTIAN ARMY CHIEF GENERAL ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISI AND INTERIM PRESIDENT ADLI MANSOUR
  • Embargoed: 22nd July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAZ8V0NZOUWQ2SAW2BS0JVFJ63
  • Story Text: Several hundred Islamists took to the streets of Pakistan's biggest city Karachi on Sunday (July 7) to protest against the coup in Egypt and show solidarity with ousted president Mohamed Mursi.
    Holding banners, placards and pictures of Mursi, activists and supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami, a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamist party in Pakistan, marched about a kilometre through one of the main streets in Karachi.
    The demonstrators expressed concerns and anger at the removal of Mursi by the Egyptian military and burnt pictures of Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and interim president Adli Mansour.
    Leading the protest was head of Jamaat-e-Islami party, Syed Munawar Hassan, who regarded the fall of Mursi to be the result of foreign plotting.
    "In fact this is the Americans, their game, they have played their game. And I don't think the things that happened that many Muslim rulers, be they kings and monarchs or be they dictatorial regimes, they have also welcomed (the coup), that clearly narrates the whole story, that this is a coup which is being inspired by dictators, by monarchs and by their generation. So, in fact, we are with president Mursi and we shall remain with him. He was a popular leader and he is a popular leader," Hassan told reporters.
    Egypt's army intervened to topple Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday (July 3) after millions took to the streets to demand he step down.
    They accused the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Mursi belongs, of hijacking the revolution, entrenching its power and - critically for many - failing to revive the economy.
    The country's Constitutional Court head Adli Mansour was sworn in as interim president.
    On Saturday (July 6), U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the violence and said the United States was not working with any particular party or group in Egypt.
    Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, were quick to congratulate the interim president in a move widely interpreted as being an endorsement of the protest-backed coup.
    Mohamed Mursi is being held by Egypt's army at a military facility in Cairo while other senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested in a crackdown on the movement that won several elections last year.
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