Tanzeem al Jihad, a local organisation held a protest rally on Sunday, in favour of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and demanded that the government play a role in securing her release. The organisation's patron Naveed Kamal Bhatti led the rally and around 200 citizens participated in it. They carried placards and banners in favour of Aafia and chanted slogans against the US government.
The rally started from Krishan Nagar and concluded at Charing Cross where the protesters also burnt an effigy of former president Pervez Musharraf holding him responsible for Aafia's arrest. |