Sunni Ittehad Council Pakistan (SICP) on Tuesday announced to observe the next Friday as a black day to denounce the Nato air strikes against Pakistan Army across the country. A large number of angry protesters demanded of the government to cut all kind of supplies to the Nato forces in Afghanistan in a reaction to the organisation's fresh strikes killing at least 25 soldiers and injuring over a dozen other in the remote mountainous region of Mohmand Agency.
The protesters holding banners inscribed with slogans "Nato supply permanently be stopped", "Nato strikes is attack on Pakistan's sovereignty". They were chanting slogans in favour of Pakistan Army and against the US and Nato forces during a demonstration organised outside Karachi Press Club.
Speaking to the demonstrators, Secretary General of SICP, Haji Muhammad Hanif Tayab termed the Nato air strikes against Pak Army as "naked aggression", saying the nation would stage countrywide protests to denounce the fresh attack on the next Friday. He said the US and its allies should leave Pakistani and Afghanistan soils, adding that his council would begin countrywide campaign to mobilise anti-US sentiments to force the foreign troops to quit the region. "The US and its allied forces should leave Pakistan," he said.
He said a struggle would continue until the invaded forces were in Afghanistan, besides demanding of the Pakistan government to vacate the declared and hidden bases allotted to the US forces in the country. "Shamsi airbase and other bases given during the Musharraf era should be vacated from the US forces," Haji Tayab said.
He termed the Nato strike a "challenge" to the Pakistan's sovereignty and its security. He said the nation was fully supporting its army to defend the motherland against any aggression. He said the nation was united at this crucial moment of the history. He also dubbed the Nato's excuse behind the strikes as "unacceptable", and urged the government to approach Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) to gain support from the Muslim countries against the allied forces' aggression.