PAKISTAN: THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE IN PROTEST AT U.S. AIR STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN

Record ID: 342223

  • Title: PAKISTAN: THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE IN PROTEST AT U.S. AIR STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
  • Date: 27th October 2001
  • Summary: (U4)ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 26, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PROTESTERS BURNING EFFIGY; MV PROTESTERS CHANTING/ PULL OUT TO WIDE OF BURNING EFFIGY/ PROTESTERS BEATING EFFIGY; MV BOY BURNING EFFIGY; SCU PROTESTERS CHANTING (4 SHOTS) 0.23 2. WIDE OF PROTESTERS MARCHING; MV BANNER SAYING "AMERICA THE BIG TERRORIST"; DEMONSTRATOR CHANTING "LONG LIVE TALIBAN", "LONG LIVE OSAMA"; OSAMA BIN LADEN BANNER; WIDE OF PROTEST (4 SHOTS) 0.43 3. SLV/SCU RIOT POLICE LINED UP (2 SHOTS) 0.51 4. MV QAZI HUSSAIN AHMED, JAMIAT ISLAMI LEADER, ADDRESSING PROTESTER FROM BACK OF TRUCK 0.57 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) AHMED SAYING "We have Islamic relationship with Osama and the Taliban" 1.08 6. WIDE OF CROWD LISTENING; BIN LADEN POSTER (2 SHOTS) 1.16 (W5)PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 26, 2001)(REUTERS) 7. WIDE OF PROTESTERS MARCHING; MV MAN SHOUTING; SLV PROTEST; MV MAN HOLDING UP POSTER WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN (8 SHOTS) 2.06 8. (SOUNDBITE)(Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER SAYING "We are going to fight and fight and fight until the last drop of blood is spilt." 2.19 9. SLV PROTEST 2.24 (W5)KARACHI, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 26, 2001)(REUTERS) 10. TOP VIEW THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING 2.32 11. SLV PROTESTERS ON MOVING BUSES (2 SHOTS) 2.49 12. HAS PROTESTERS PRAYING (3 SHOTS) 3.05 13. HAS THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING; SLV PROTEST/ BANNERS/ FLAGS/ PROTESTERS CHANTING; MV SPEAKER ADDRESSING CROWDS (2 SHOTS) 3.14 14. HAS PROTESTERS CHANTING; MV FLAGS, BANNERS; BURNING OF UNITED STATES FLAG; HAS THOUSANDS MARCHING (8 SHOTS) 3.59 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th November 2001 12:00
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  • Location: ISLAMABAD, PESHAWAR AND KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA6YCYGPM63YWCKT9QBLWY2MMM6
  • Story Text: Thousands of anti-United States (U.S.) protesters have
    staged angry demonstrations around Pakistan in protest over
    the continuing attacks on Afghanistan.

    Around two thousand protesters gathered in Islamabad
    on Friday (October 26) in an angry demonstration against the
    United States.

    After burning effigies outside the Red Mosque, the
    protesters marched with anti-United States (U.S.) banners and
    posters of Osama bin Laden, for a rally in central Islamabad.

    "Long live Taliban", "Long live Osama", they chanted.

    Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of the Jamiat Islami religious
    party that organised the protest, addressed the crowds, urging
    continued support for Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.

    Similar scenes were repeated in Peshawar where a few
    hundred people protested after Friday prayers.

    "We are going to fight and fight and fight until the last
    drop of blood is spilt," said one of the protesters.

    The biggest of the protests took place in Karachi, where
    around 40,000 activists from hardline Pakistani Islamic groups
    took to the streets to demand the government be overthrown and
    an end to U.S. raids on Afghanistan.

    The protesters converged in Karachi's District East after
    the main Friday prayers.

    The protest call had been made by the Pakistan-Afghanistan
    Defence Council, a coalition of more than two dozen hardline
    and militant Islamic groups behind sometimes violent protests
    staged across Pakistan since Islamabad sided with Washington
    in its war on terrorism.

    The council has organised regular protests in Karachi, a
    teeming city of 12 million, but turnout has been low with just
    5,000 people hitting the streets last Friday and only around
    25,000 for the biggest to date, held two weeks ago.

    Although Pakistan's pro-Taliban Islamic groups have been
    unable to muster mass street support there have been bloody
    clashes in various cities around the country and a number of
    people killed.

    The U.S. bombing raids, aimed at punishing the Taliban for
    offering a haven to Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden,
    entered their 20th day on Friday.


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