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3,000 Pakis rally for end of Indian rule in Kashmir | |
2006-02-06 | |
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Several thousand people held rallies Sunday in Islamabad and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir to demand an end to Indian rule in the other part of the divided Kashmiri region. About 3,000 supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s largest Islamic group, rallied in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, chanting “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great.” About 400 other Jamaat-e-Islami supporters demonstrated on a main street in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir. The rallies marked “Kashmir Solidarity Day,” when Pakistanis show support for Kashmir’s independence from India.
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Posted by:Steve White |