Summary Rallies were held Tuesday in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and other cities.
KARACHI (Agencies) - Protests against killing of Egypt’s Brotherhood supporters continue in Pakistan as a large rally took onto streets in Karachi, the largest city of the country.
Hundreds of activists of Pakistan’s main religious political party, the Jamaat-e-Islami took to the streets on Tuesday to denounce the killing of Egyptian people by the country’s security forces.
JI chief Manawar Hassan lead the protest rally on one of main road of Karachi city, hundreds of people participated in Tuesday rally.
The demonstrations were mostly organised by Islamic political parties including Jamaat-e-Islami which has ideological links to the Brotherhood.
JI activists marched with banners and placards chanting anti-US slogans as well as support for Morsi.
Protestors also chanted slogans against the Egyptian Army for what they called a massacre. They also accused Egyptian Army’s western and Arab backers for the unrest.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, rallies were held few days back in various cities, including the main city Peshawar, while protest rallies had been organized in country’s capital Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Sukkar, Hyderabad, Quetta, Sibbi, Gawadar and other cities and towns of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.
The Pakistani lawmakers also denounced the Egyptian military’s brutalities against their own people.
Pakistan has already voiced its concerns over the recent developments in Egypt.
Given the fact that Pakistan has suffered from numerous extra-constitutional interventions in the past, officials have released a statement to voice Islamabad’s opposition to Mohamed Morsi s ouster by the army in Egypt and to call for the immediate restoration of democratic rule in the country.
The lower house of parliament and foreign ministry expressed dismay and deep concern over the use of force "against unarmed civilians" and urged all sides to show restraint.
