[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Paks from 40 different religious and political groups have held a demonstration to condemn Washington's policies and the unsanctioned US drone strikes on the country's tribal region, Press TV reports.The Sunday rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, about 24 kilometers south of the capital Islamabad, was one of the biggest anti-US demonstrations to be recently held in the country, a Press TV correspondent reported from the city.
The angry demonstrations rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the US and its activities in Pakistain. "Until the destruction of the United States, we'll keep fighting against it," shouted one activist attending the rally that was arranged by the Defense of Pakistain Council, which is an alliance of 40 religious and political parties.
The organizers say the massive turnout at the rally serves as a referendum against, what they described as, the unjust policies of the United States vis-Ã -vis Pakistain.
Relations between the two sides have notably soured over the unauthorized attacks, with Pakistain insisting that the
Speakers at the demonstration delivered hard-hitting speeches, urging the government to cease its cooperation with Washington's so-called war on terror.
Some of them even suggested that Pakistain had to prevent the US aircraft from using its airspace on their way to and from Afghanistan. "There are 400 daily US flights from Afghanistan, and Pakistain should shut this air corridor for the US," one participant said.
The rally was attended by the religious groups, Jamaatud Dawa and Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
-Sami, the political parties of Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
, Awami Moslem League, and Pakistain Moslem League-Zia, as well as former Army chief, retired General Mirza Aslam Baig, and the former head of the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
Hamid GulThe nutty former head of Pakistain's ISI, now Godfather to Mullah Omar's Talibs and good buddy and consultant to al-Qaeda's high command...
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Pakistain has closed its border crossings to the supply convoys destined for the US-led foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan in response to deadly US-led NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
Pak politician, Ijazul Haq, told our correspondent, "We are not going to allow NATO supplies till the time the US agrees to stop drone strikes in Pakistain."
He added that the US and the Western military alliance had to stop carrying out acts of aggression against Pakistain.