Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) on Monday demanded of the government to shut supplies for Nato and US forces in Afghanistan permanently. The proscribed organisation denounced the government's decision of giving Most Favoured Nation's (MFN) status to India.
A large number of JuD activists gathered outside Karachi Press Club to protest the Nato raid inside Pakistan that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and injured many others. They raised anti-US and India slogans, demanding of the PPP-led government to vacate the Shamsi airbase from the US troops. They urged the rulers to retaliate the Nato attacks inside Pakistan.
The protest demonstration was addressed by JuD central leader Maulana Saifullah Khalid, chief of Karachi chapter, Engr. Naveed Qamar, Professor Mehmood-ul-Hassan, Asad Hafiz Kaleem-ullah, chief of Jamat-e-Islami Sindh, Assadullah Bhutto, Nasrullah Shaji, Jamiat-Ulema Islam's (JUI-F) Aslam Ghori, Tanzeem-e-Islami's Shuja-uddin Shaikh, Jamiat Ittehad Ulema's Maulana Zameer Akhtar Mansoori and others.
They termed the government's decision to give MFN status to India a 'big blow' to the local manufacturing, agriculture and trade sector. They said the government should cut off the supply line of the Nato forces and retaliate the air strikes inside Pakistan.