Summary Speakers denounced attack on holy sites in Syria and demanded a joint plan to protect holy sites.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Protest rallies were held against the attack on Hazrat Zainab’s RA shrine in various cities of Pakistan. Protest rallies were held in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and other cities of the country.
Terrorist attack on holy shrine of Hazrat Syedda Zainab (AS) has sparked off stiff protest across Pakistan where countless people began countrywide protest staging rallies and sit-in.
From Karachi to Skardu, Shia Muslims wearing black suits and armbands have come out of their houses and gathered on main roads. Their protest demonstrations are going on in all small and big cities of all the five provinces of Pakistan.
Reports from Karachi say that the protest rally was passing through main numaish chowrangi to Imam Bargah Ali Raza (AS).
A protest rally was held in Islamabad on Sunday to lodge protest against the attack on Hazrat Bibi Zainab s (RA) shrine near Syrian capital Damascus. The rally organized by Markazi Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen started from G-6/2 and culminated at Constitution Avenue.
The speakers denounced the attack on holy sites in Syria and said a joint plan of action is necessary to protect the sites that are holy for all sects of Muslims.
They said the protest demonstrations to show their sentiments against these attacks will continue. Demonstrators also presented a Memorandum to Director General Middle East Affairs at the Foreign Office.
Later the demonstrators dispersed peacefully.
Another rally is to be staged on Shahrah-e-Pakistan near Super Highway at Incholi and a sit-in is to be staged in Malir Jafar-e-Tayyar Society.
Reports from rural Sindh say that the mourners beat their chest and raised the slogans of Ya Hussain (AS) and Ya Mahdi (AS) when they began protest from the shrine of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai at Bhit Shah.
A rally was held in Matli, another was staged in Tarai, Golarchi and others were being planned in other parts of district Badin. In Mirpurkhas, rally was being taken out near Press Club of Kot Ghulam Mohammad and also in Tando Allah Yar.
Protest demonstrations are being planned to be held in different areas of district Khairpur, Nawabshah, Dadu, Jacobabad, Sukkur and Shikarpur. In Larkana, the rally is to be taken out from Dargah Jaral Shah Bukhari to Jinnah Bagh Chowk.
In Quetta, provincial capital of Baluchistan province, a rally is being taken out from Baltistani Imam Bargah.
Protest was being staged at China Chowk and Gamba in Skardu. Similar sort of the protest is being staged in Gilgit and rest of Gilgit-Baltistan province.
Reports from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Bhakkar, Layyah, Multan, Bhalwal, and Peshawar say that protest was being staged to condemn the takifiri terrorist attack on the sacred shrine of grand daughter of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).
The protestors have demanded of Islamic Ummah to issue fatwa against the takfiri terrorists who are desecrating the holy shrines of Ahl-e-Bait (AS) and As-hab (RA) in Syria and other places.
