On the call of central leadership of the ruling religion-political alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) in the province staged a protest rally to mourn and condemn the killing of Ghazi Abdur Rashid and students of Jamia Hafsa.
The speakers at the rally has urged clerics and prayer leaders to strongly condemns operation in the Friday's sermons besides urging the people to participate in large number in demonstration being planned for Friday.
The alliance announced to mourn the deaths of Ghazi Abdur Rashid and other 'martyrs' for three days and hold Quran Khawani in every mosques, seminaries and bazaar of the province on Thursday while a big protest rally would be taken out on Friday afternoon from Qasim Ali Khan's mosque.
"The bloodshed of Maulana Ghazi and hundred of innocent students would not go waste and the rulers one day would have to give account of bloodshed," the enraged protestors were raising the slogans against the killings and operation in Lal Masjid of Islamabad.
The speakers while addressing the big protest rally remarked that rulers had performed the role of US and Israeli 'agents' and besieged the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa like forces besieging military compounds of an enemy country. They criticised government for stopping the supply of food, water, electricity and gas to the besieged females, children and use of heavy weapons against the people besieged inside the mosque and madrassa.
The angry leaders of MMA also lashed out at Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto for supporting General Pervez Musharraf to get the support of West. But, they said that there would be no place for such brand of politics in Pakistan.
"People would not pardon those supporting killing of Ghazi and his students while nation would not hesitate of giving last drop of their blood for the protection of seminaries, mosque and Islamic learning centers," they observed.
They criticised government-foiling attempts made for peaceful solution of the Lal Masjid stand-off in order to send a 'new gift of Muslim blood' to the West. However the rulers would pay a heavy price for such 'brutal' operation.
Those who addressed the protest rally were Shabir Ahmad Khan, Qari Fayaz-ur-Rahman MNAs, Atta-ul-Haq, Provincial Ministers, Amanullah Haqani, Kashif Azam, local leaders Hafiz Idreess Khalil, Qari Rafiq Shah, Haji Dost Mohammad and Haji Ihsan-ul-Haq.