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A strike is being observed amid widespread demonstrations across the country on Saturday (today), on the call of Sunni Ittehad Council, to condemn the Data Darbar carnage . The suicide attacks that claimed 44 lives have pushed people across the country to protest and demand government action. Religious and political parties across the country have voiced their condemnations of the attacks and are pressurising the government to take strict action against the perpetrators. Traders organisations have announced a strike while rallies and demonstrations will also be staged in different cities. On Friday, the Sunni Tehreek took out a rally in Karachi demanding early arrest of the people involved in the attacks. Jamiat-e-Ulema Pakistan, Markazi Jamat-e-Ahl-e Sunnat and Anjuman-e-Sarfaroshan protested in Hyderabad. In Lahore, workers of different religious parties protested outside the shrine. Leaders of all political and religious parties and seminaries were at one in condemning the bombings. Students belonging to seminaries took to the streets after Friday prayers, blocking a number of roads and burning tyres. Top Sunni leaders attended a rally outside the Data Darbar and staged a sit-in along with hundreds of furious protesters. Slogans calling for resignations by the president, the prime minister and the Punjab chief minister rent the air.
