GEO PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD: Around 1,500 protesters demanded on Friday an end to Pakistani military operations and US missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan, witnesses said, according to AFP.
Tribesmen were among those who took part in the demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, organised by Pakistan's main Islamic party Jamaat-i-Islami (JI).
The protesters shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is great), ‘no to military operations in tribal areas’ and ‘stop drone attacks’. ‘Unrest started in Pakistan because the government adopted pro-US policies and I see no end to this until Pakistan abandons pro-US policies,’ JI chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed told demonstrators.
He criticised as deception new US President Barack Obama's announcement that the notorious US detention centre, Guantanamo Bay, will be closed within a year.
‘They are deceiving people, they say they will close Guantanamo prison in one year. Who knows what the circumstances will be in one year? It is again Zionist and prejudiced people who have gathered around Obama,’ the JI leader said.
Pakistan's rugged tribal belt is home to hundreds if not thousands of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, who fled Afghanistan after the US-led invasion in late 2001.
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