(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Thousands of Pakistanis have held an anti-US rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, slamming the American government for what they called its intervention in Pakistan's internal affairs.
The activists of Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, on Sunday called for an end to unauthorized US drone attacks in the country's tribal regions that have left many civilians dead.
Anti-American sentiment ran high in Pakistan as more people from different walks of life came to join the rally, chanting slogans against the US and the incumbent Pakistani government which they held responsible for the current unrest and instability across the country.
“What the Americans have been doing in the last two or three days, they have created a mess and I don't think that mess can be classified in anyway,” Head of Jamaat-e-Islami Party Seyed Munawar Hasan told Press TV.
The new wave of anti-US move is rising in Pakistan as the US continues to put pressure on Islamabad to launch military operations against militants which it believes to operate from sanctuaries in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.
The US has stepped up its unauthorized airstrikes in Pakistan since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
Since then the surge in unauthorized US drone attacks in Pakistan along with NATO operations along the border, which have resulted in an increase in civilian deaths, has drawn criticism from Pakistani officials.
Pakistan has also strongly condemned violation of its airspace by US-led forces stationed in Afghanistan. Washington claims the airstrikes target militants, but most of the attacks result in civilian casualties.
The issue of civilian casualties has strained relations between Islamabad and Washington.
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25 September 2011 - 20:30
News ID: 267837
Thousands of Pakistanis have held an anti-US rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, slamming the American government for what they called its intervention in Pakistan's internal affairs.
