PAKISTAN: THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST U.S.-LED STRIKES AGAINST TALIBAN POSITIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Record ID: 342248

  • Title: PAKISTAN: THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST U.S.-LED STRIKES AGAINST TALIBAN POSITIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
  • Date: 29th October 2001
  • Summary: (U3) PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 28, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PROTESTERS MARCHING IN STREETS CHANTING 'DOWN WITH BUSH, DOWN WITH AMERICA' (5 SHOTS) 0.33 2. MV PROTESTERS BURNING AN EFFIGY OF UNITED STATES PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH; MV PROTESTERS CHANTING SLOGANS AGAINST BUSH; SCU EFFIGY BURNING; SLV PROTESTERS BURNING EFFIGY AND CHANTING SLOGANS (5 SHOTS) 1.00 3. SLV /SCU SECURITY NEAR THE DEMONSTRATION (2 SHOTS) 1.10 4. SLV THOUSANDS STANDING AT RALLY; SV MAN ADDRESSING RALLY; RALLY (4 SHOTS) 1.32 5. SCU BANNER READING 'UNCLE, DEATH KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR' 1.37 6. SCU POSTER OF OSAMA BIN LADEN 1.42 7. SLV DEMONSTRATION (3 SHOTS) 1.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th November 2001 12:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVAAFQGNRG2MQJ78LNH4WTXKPTTT
  • Story Text: Thousands of Pakistani demonstrators took to the
    streets of Peshawar in a protest against the US-led strikes on
    Afghanistan. The protesters carried posters of Osama bin Laden
    and burnt an effigy of US President George W Bush.

    Pakistani demonstrators continued their protests
    against the US-led strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan on
    Sunday (October 28, 2001) in Peshawar.

    The demonstrators chanted slogans against the United
    States and President George W. Bush as they marched through
    the streets of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan.

    They later burnt an effigy of Bush, chanting 'down with Bush',
    and 'Down with America'.

    The protest took place hours after masked gunmen shot dead
    up to 16 Christians at Sunday prayers in an unprecedented
    attack in the central Pakistani town of Bahawalpur.

    Christians have expressed fears they could become targets
    if unrest broke out in Muslim Pakistan over opposition to the
    U.S. attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan's ruling Muslim
    Taliban militia.

    Police have been posted at Christian churches since
    September 11 attacks on the United States blamed on Saudi-born
    Osama bin Laden who is believed to be in Afghanistan.

    At least 15 Afghan villagers were allegedly killed this
    week by U.S. bombs and fire from an Air Force Special Forces
    AC-130 gunship, according to reports from injured survivors
    released by the aid agency Human Rights Watch on Sunday
    (October 28).

    The fundamentalist Islamic Taliban says 1,000 civilians
    have been killed since the U.S. launched air strikes on
    Afghanistan on October 7 in punishment for Kabul harbouring
    Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September
    11 attacks on New York and Washington.

    The Pentagon says those figures are exaggerated.

    The Taliban early in the campaign said dozens of civilians
    were killed when a bus was hit by a U.S. bomb near Kandahar.

    Qatar's al-Jazeera television reported at least 10 people
    were killed on Saturday by a stray U.S. bomb in a village
    controlled by the opposition Northern Alliance.


  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2015. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register