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Friday September 21 2:23 PM ET

Three Killed in Pakistan as Anti-U.S. Demos Rage

By Scott McDonald and Imran Maqbool

PESHAWAR/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least three people were shot
dead and dozens arrested Friday as thousands of protesters across
Pakistan demonstrated against their president's decision to help the
United States track down Osama bin Laden and punish his Taliban
protectors. 

Most of the violence was in the southern port city of Karachi, where
police fought pitched battles with protesters and fired tear gas
following Friday prayers during which some Muslim clerics gave sermons
in support of bin Laden and the Taliban. 

Further protests have been called across the country including one in
the capital, Islamabad, Sunday. 

Police said gunfire erupted in a poor quarter of Karachi's Sohrab Goth
suburb after midday prayers.  A spokesman said it was unclear who fired
the shots, but two people were killed and three others injured. 

Another man was shot dead when police opened fire on a mob trying to
ransack a cinema in the Quaidabad area, police said, while a fourth man
died of a heart attack while defending his store against looters. 

More than 50 people were arrested, police said, adding that they were
mostly Afghans.  Nearly 2 million Afghan refugees live in Pakistan. 

BOISTEROUS BUT PEACEFUL

Elsewhere, the protests were boisterous but largely peaceful, but they
underscored the divisions in Pakistan following President Pervez
Musharraf's decision to cooperate with the United States in the
aftermath of the Sept.  11 attacks on New York and Washington. 

The rallies were called by radical Muslim groups that have close links
to the Taliban and have been allowed to flourish over the years as
Pakistan sought to influence its unruly northern neighbor. 

At the biggest demonstration, held in the ancient city of Lahore, about
20,000 people waved flags and banners representing a coalition of 35
Islamic groups that called the protests. 

``If America attacks, we will turn Afghanistan into their graveyard,''
announced one speaker, to the cheers and chants from the assembled
faithful. 

In Peshawar, home to over a million refugees from Afghanistan, about
5,000 turned out to denounce Washington.  Demonstrators burned an effigy
of President Bush. 

The crowd was mostly in a festive mood, shouting ``God is Great'' and
``Down with America.''

``We have to show and tell the people how unjust America's actions are
to try to attack the Taliban without any concrete evidence,'' said Abdul
Khaliq, spokesman for the hard-line religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam. 

``The government should know what the people are thinking,'' Khaliq
added. 

DECISION FAILS TO PLACATE BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS

A decision by Afghanistan's senior Islamic clerics for Kabul to persuade
Saudi-born bin Laden to leave of his own free will appeared not to have
eased the angry mood. 

``If Musharraf supports the Taliban that is good, if not he is our
enemy,'' said one protester in Peshawar who described himself as a
mujahid, or holy warrior. 

Shops in Peshawar and most other cities were closed -- some in support
of the strike but many fearing retaliation from radicals if they were
seen to be ignoring the call. 

In the commercial capital, Karachi, home to 11 million people, armored
personnel carriers, police vans and paramilitary rangers protected the
U.S.  consulate and patrolled the city. 

The business center was virtually deserted. 

Large groups of police were deployed around the city in protective riot
gear, some armed with semi-automatic weapons but most carrying long
sticks. 

Army trucks patrolled the streets, packed with soldiers in combat gear
and with machine guns mounted in front. 

Government officials in Peshawar warned foreign media to avoid the
narrow streets of the city's bazaars.  The government asked hotels to
post the warning prominently. 

In the western city of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan, police ringed
hotels and prevented local and foreign reporters from leaving, saying
the situation was too volatile. 

A snap poll by Gallup Pakistan this week showed 62 percent of those
questioned opposed Musharraf's decision to stand by the United States in
what it has called its war on terrorism. 

Musharraf's stance has been denounced by religious leaders. 

``This hasty decision made by the Pakistani government does not enjoy
the support of the masses since this is tantamount to mortgaging the
national sovereignty for mean and petty games,'' Qazi Hussein Ahmed,
head of Pakistan's largest Islamic party Jama'at-e-Islami, said in
Islamabad Thursday. 

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