SUKKUR, April 4: On the call of the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal, protest rallies were staged in different parts of Sindh on Friday to condemn the ongoing US-UK invasion of Iraq and killing of the citizens in the war.

Hundreds of protesters took out a procession here against the war and the killing of innocent Iraqi people in the air and ground strikes.

Participants of the procession emerged from the Ghousia Masjid and after marching through main roads of the city reached at the Clock Tower where they burnt effigies of President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The protesters were carrying banners and placards and raising slogans against the Iraq war and the ongoing aerial and ground attacks on civilian areas of the Iraqi cities.

Speaking on the occasion, Maulana Mohammed Ibrahim Qadri of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan and other MMA leaders demanded that bombardment on Iraq should be immediately stopped to ensure that citizens are no more killed.

They also called for trying President Bush and Prime Minister Blair in the International Court of Justice for war crimes being committed in the Middle Eastern country.

The MMA leaders said that the US and its allies in Iraq war had proved themselves the biggest terrorists in the world.

They urged Muslims of the world to unite against the US and its allies as the US was trying to take over the control of the Muslim countries and their resources.

HYDERABAD: A big anti-war rally was staged here at the Market Chowk.

Speaking on the occasion, local MMA MNA Dr Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair appealed to the masses to boycott American and British consumer goods.

He said that the announcement by the MMA leadership to hold a million-man march in Hyderabad on April 14 has created a new spirit among the people of the city.

The MMA district president and a Jamaat-i-Islami leader, Abdul Waheed Qureshi, alleged that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair were the agents of the Jews and they were engaged in genocide of the Muslims.

Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan MPA Abdur Rehman Rajput said that had not the MMA restored to million-man marches, the rulers would have announced open support for the US attack on Iraq as they had done in Afghanistan.

The protesters burnt the effigies of the US president and the UK prime minister.

Meanwhile, the activists of the Pukhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, led by Saleem Tareen, and Pasban, led by Mohammad Hussain Khan, also held separate anti-war demonstrations outside the Hyderabad Press Club and burnt the effigies of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair.

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Anti-war rallies were staged in Tharushah, Kandiaro and Mehrabpur to condemn the US-UK invasion of Iraq.

Protesters, led by Haji Mohammad Iqbal, president, Jamiat Ahl-i-Sunnat, took out a rally from Madina Masjid, Tharushah, after Friday prayer.

They were raising slogans against the US, calling the US president a reincarnation of Hitler.

In Kandiaro, the protesters, led by district president, Jamiat Ulema-i- Islam (F), Maulana Mohammad Idrees, took out a procession from the Jamia Masjid.

In Mehrabpur, the anti-war procession was led by the prayer leader of the Jamia Masjid, Maulana Abdul Samad Halejvi.

NAWABSHAH: Hundreds of people, under the banner of the Jamaat Ahl-i-Sunnat, took out a procession here against the US-led attack on Iraq.

MIRPURKHAS: A procession was taken out here by the MMA against the US attack on Iraq.

The protesters were led by MNA Asadullah Bhutto and Allama Hassan Turabi.

At least 2,000 people, carrying banners and placards and raising slogans of “Down with America” and “Long Live Saddam” participated in it.