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| Thousands rally against attacks on shrines |
| 2011-02-07 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Thousands staged a rally in Lahore on Sunday to condemn terrorism and attacks on shrines, police said. "More than 10,000 people participated in the rally," senior police officer Mustansar Bajwa said. Chanting slogans against terrorism, the demonstrators called for peace in the country, which has been troubled by bombings and suicide kabooms. The demonstrators marched from the provincial assembly building to the Data Darbar, amid heavy police presence, witnesses said. The Pakistain Awami Tehreek party had called the rally. "Islam is a religion of peace and acts of terrorism and bloodshed are against its teachings," the party's local chief Raheek Abbasi told the rally. He urged the government to "improve resources and provide jobs and justice to the people to end the menace." The protest came three days after a kaboom near a shrine in Lahore, which killed two people and maimed more than a dozen worshippers. Two jacket wallahs blew themselves up among crowds of worshippers at the Data Darbar shrine in July, killing 42 people. In October two jacket wallahs blew themselves up at the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Bloody Karachi, killing nine worshippers, including two children. |
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