[iwar] [fc:National.strike,.killings.in.Pakistan]

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Date: 2001-09-21 19:31:15


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Subject: [iwar] [fc:National.strike,.killings.in.Pakistan]
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Pakistan
By Peter Popham in Quetta and Ray Whitaker
22 September 2001

A national strike was called and demonstrations were staged across
Pakistan yesterday in fiery protest at President Pervez Musharraf's
support for America against Afghanistan's Taliban regime.  At least
three people were shot dead when gunfire erupted in K arachi. 

But protestors were largely confined to the loyal supporters of the
religious parties; the spread of dissent to the majority of the
population, much feared by the Pakistani government, has yet to happen. 

In Peshawar, close to the Afghan border, 10,000 men marched to the main
mosque to hear speeches hailing Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.  One
tribal leader, Sadar Abdul Rehman, told the crowd that the price of guns
in his area will be dropped from eight th ousand rupees (£85) to 500
rupees (£3).  "I invite the Americans to come to our land so you can see
for yourselves what will be done to you," he announced. 

In Quetta, a crowd of several thousand gathered after Friday prayers in
front of the city's central mosque, calling for solidarity with
Afghanistan against America. 

At the culmination of the protest, as has become the norm during the
past week, a straw dummy in western shirt and trousers representing
President Bush was hoisted above the crowd, then set on fire and smashed
to pieces. 

"No one believed Afghanistan's jihad (holy war) against Russia would
succeed," roared one of the speakers to cheering followers.  "Now
America is trying the same thing but they will be defeated, just like
the Russians."

"The incidents" – the attacks in New York and Washington – took place in
the United States and no one from Afghanistan was involved," one speaker
declared.  "War against Afghanistan is war against Islam and war against
Pakistan." Although there were photog raphs of Mr bin Laden on banners,
references to him by the speakers in Quetta were conspicuously absent. 

There was no other violence, however.  The crowd broke up and went home,
with the satisfied but not unduly excited look of football supporters
after a predictable home win had been secured. 

President Musharraf may yet fear the simmering tension among his people
in the days ahead but, for the time being, they are mainly under
control. 

Moderate elements believe that support of the US is the only reasonable
option. 

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