Press TV: 1000s hold anti-US demo in Karachi
Article from: PRESS TV
Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:38PM
Thousands of supporters of Pakistan's Jamiat Ulema-e Islam party have gathered in Karachi to condemn US assassination drone attacks in the northwestern border regions.
About 100,000 JUI supporters held a demonstration organized by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam in front of the mausoleum of the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on Friday.
JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the United States will face an “imminent defeat” in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas have been hit by several airstrikes carried out by US assassination drones since the beginning of 2012. (OUR COMMENT: OF COURSE THE TVs WORKING FOR THE USA’S PROPAGANDA DIDN’T FOCALIZE THEIR ATTENTION ON THOSE CRIMES!)
On Monday, Pakistani officials said at least five people were killed in a US drone attack in the North Waziristan tribal area, close to the Afghan border.
The demonstrators in Karachi also demanded that the Pakistani government continue the blockade on the NATO supply route to Afghanistan.
On November 26, 2011, 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack by NATO helicopters and fighter jets on two army checkpoints in the northwestern tribal district of Mohmand.
In response to the attack, Islamabad closed the border crossings used to transfer NATO supplies into Afghanistan and boycotted an international conference on Afghanistan held in the German city of Bonn on December 5, 2011.
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