Like other parts of country, activists of religious parties, civil society, trade bodies and human rights organizations took out rallies and held protest demonstrations against the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday.
After the Friday congregations, activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI-F, Ahle Sunnat Wahl Jammat (ASWJ), Al-Ansar Welfare Society, Difa-e-Pakistan, and Pakistan Rah-e-Haq party held protest rallies in the provincial capital Peshawar. The rallies were headed by Maulana Ismail Darwish, Abu Mauvi Tariq Haider, Maulana Bilal Qasmi, former member provincial assembly, Hakim Mohammad Ibrahim Qasmi, convener Inamullah, Zurqarnain Haider and others.
The participants were holding placards and banners inscribed with slogans against genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The angry protesters de-face the portrait of Nobel Prize Winner, and defacto leader of Mayanmar, Aung Sun Suu Kyi, and demanding to immediate withdraw all international awards, which were given to her in recognition of raising voice for human rights. The demonstrators while speaking on the occasion strongly denounced the ongoing violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. They criticized the international community and rights-based organizations for keeping silence over the massacre of innocent Muslims.
The protesters demanded of the UN, OIC and Muslim world to play their active role to end the violence and genocide of Rohingya Muslims immediately. They also called upon the Pakistan government to raise the Burmese Muslims issue at proper forum to end the persecution of Rohingya minority in Myanmar. They expressed fear that it could be dire consequences, if the Muslim world was failed to end the escalating violence against Rohingya Muslims.
Under the aegis of United Traders Union (UTU) Skhakot Malakand district, thousands of people held a big protest demonstration against killing of Rohingya Muslims and demanded UN, world powers and Muslim countries to take serious notice of this genocide. Led by President United Trade Union, Hameedullah Khan, the people were holding placards and banners inscribed with different slogans by criticising the United Nations and international community for their silence over the violence against Muslims.
The rally marched on different roads at Skhakot and converted into a big public meeting at General Bus stop. United Traders Union President Hameed Khan, Senior Vice President, Nawab Khan, Maulana Shamsul Haq, Fazal Haq and others addressed. In Malakand division, the workers of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) have staged a protest demonstration against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims.