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India-Pakistan
1000s attend anti-US demo in Karachi
2011-06-05
Where'd they get the funds to pay Rage Boy and his friends? They won't march unless they get paid -- they have families to support, after all.
[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Paks have staged an anti-US demonstration in Bloody Karachi to call for an end to US meddling in the region.

The Jamaat-e-Islami party organized the sit-in demonstration in the country's largest city on Saturday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

The demonstrators called for an end to drone attacks in Pakistain, the US military presence in Afghanistan, and US influence in Pakistain.

"America is dominating and whatever they want gets done. Now the country is going to launch an operation (in) North Wazoo. This sit-in protest is against the US occupation and influence and we want to get free of US slavery," said Mohammad Hussain Mehnati, who is the Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Bloody Karachi.

On Friday, a US missile attack targeting a bad turban compound in the South Waziristan tribal region killed at least eight people.

The strike was the ninth to be reported in Pakistain's tribal areas, which are located close to the Afghan border, since the US attack in the city of Abbottabad that allegedly killed al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... he's rotten though not quite forgotten...
on May 2 (May 1 Washington time).

The Pak parliament recently passed a resolution condemning the US attack in Abbottabad and demanding a review of ties with the US and other Western countries.

The resolution also called for an independent investigation into the attack, which the parliament called a unilateral action and a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty.

The resolution said that if they are not halted, such attacks could have dire consequences for peace and security in the region and the world.
Posted by:Fred

#4  They are the bait the Pak elite use to lure billion of $ and mil-tech to Pakistan.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685   2011-06-05 22:04  

#3  Possible, but not likely, CF. And if if it were, it'd be a very small percentage.

Jamaat-e-Islami is not exactly on the Pak's civilian government favorite list. Aspects of the military, however...
Posted by: Pappy   2011-06-05 21:50  

#2  Where do you think those billions of foreign aid are going?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-06-05 14:34  

#1  Where'd they get the funds to pay Rage Boy and his friends?

Jamaat-e-Islami has been around for a long, long time - seventy years.

The money is coming from charity boxes outside mosques, donations from shopkeepers, tradesmen, expatriates, etc. I suspect there's also funds coming in from outside the country. JeI has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood; the same donors backing the latter are likely also backing the former to some degree.
Posted by: Pappy   2011-06-05 14:18  

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