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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Muslims in Pakistan mark Al Quds Day with big rallies and protest demonstrations
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LAHORE, PAKISTAN, (PIC)-- Hundreds of thousands of the faithful rallied in major cities of Pakistan on Friday to join millions of Muslims around the world to mark Al Quds Day.

 

Different rallies and demonstrations were held in the country in which participants condemned the illegal Jewish state and its patrons in Washington for forcibly occupying Muslim Palestine and massacring and displacing millions of innocent Muslims including women and children. They also set ablaze flags of Israel and America as mark of protest and condemnation towards the enemies of Islam.

In Lahore, a rally was taken out from Islampura which culminated on Lower Mall. A large number of people including children and women participated in the rally. Carrying placards and banners the protestors chanted slogans against Israel. They expressed their solidarity with innocent people of Palestine. They strongly condemned forced Israeli occupation on Bait ul Muqadas and aggression against innocent people of Palestine.

ISO officer bearers also spoke on the occasion while in the end American and Israeli flags were also set on fire. The rally also caused a traffic mess on adjacent roads of the Lower Mall.

Meanwhile, Jafaria Students Organization, JSO Lahore also organized a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club in which a large number of students participated. The protesting students chanted anti-Israeli slogans and vowed to continue struggle till freedom of the first Qibla (Jerusalem). They vowed not to rest till independence of Bait ul Muqadas (Jerusalem).

Al Quds Day is held on the last Friday of Ramadan and is being observed to show support for Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem .

A big rally was held in Karachi after Jumma prayers in connection with the Al-Quds Day on Friday by the Shia Ulema Council, Jafferia Students Organization and Imamia Students Organization was a referendum against the Zionist states.
 
The rally expressed solidarity with their Muslim brethren, particularly the Palestinian people struggling for the liberation of Al-Quds, by observing Al-Quds Day on Jumatul Wida (last Friday of the holy month of Ramazan).

The procession which was taken out from the Regal Chowk and culminated at Empress Market was addressed by President, Shia Council Sindh, Allama Altaf Hussain Al Hussaini, Maulana Jaffer Subhani and Maulana Shahanshah Hussain Naqvi. The participants of the rally raised slogans against the United States and Israel. They also burnt US and Israeli flags

The speakers strongly condemned Israel who had forcibly uprooted Palestinians from their lands and are living a life of refugees in different parts of the world, adding that US invasions of the third world countries has resulted in the killing thousands of innocent people.

They vowed to continue to observe Jummat-ul-Wida as Al-Quds Day until the liberation of the Al-Quds.