Assalamu aleikum. Munafiq dictator and traitor to the nation General Musharraf is the only one remaining in Pakistan to "welcome" the antichrist of our age George Bush. The rest are saying, "Good riddance to bad rubbish".
- Please note that 3 articles follow: *Strike, protests paralyze Pakistan before Bush visit *Pakistan observes strike over blasphemous cartoons *Massive anti-Bush protests in India --- (1) Strike, protests paralyze Pakistan before Bush visit By Zeeshan Haider Reuters Fri Mar 3, 2006 http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-03-03T124719Z_01_ISL175350_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-PAKISTAN.xml ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An Islamist-organized nationwide strike paralyzed Pakistan on Friday as it awaited the arrival of President George W. Bush a day after a suicide car bomber killed an American diplomat and two other people. Bush was due to fly from New Delhi to Islamabad on Friday evening for the last leg of his tour of South Asia, and was expected to discuss progress in the war on terrorism in his talks with President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday. The largest protest took place in Multan in the central Punjab province where the opposition leader in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, addressed a 10,000-strong crowd. The Muslim cleric told the protesters Bush's visit was aimed at "enslaving the Pakistani nation and rewarding General Musharraf for his patriotism to America". White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters in India Bush's visit to Pakistan, a nation shown by polls to be among the most anti-American in the world, was not risk-free. Security had been reinforced after the bomb attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao told Reuters. "We revisited the whole plan again, but it was already a foolproof plan so a little bit of beefing up has been done." FBI agents, according to Pakistani officials, have joined the investigation into the suicide car bomb attack in Karachi, where the diplomat, David Foy, and his driver were killed along with a paramilitary trooper and the bomber. Hadley said the attack was "a reminder that we're at war, and that Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground in the war on terror". Bush was intent, he said, in showing solidarity with Musharraf, who has survived several assassination attempts by al Qaeda-linked militants. Bush has said that he would ask Musharraf to do more to shut down militant camps on Pakistani soil and stop cross-border infiltration -- something the Afghan and Indian leaders he met earlier on his tour have complained of. In New Delhi, Bush agreed to provide Pakistan's traditional rival India with American technical know-how for civilian nuclear power. No such goodies were in store for Pakistan, though he was expected to seek ways to expand bilateral trade. Opposition groups were hoping Bush would also encourage Musharraf, who came to power in a military coup seven years ago, to move faster to strengthen democratic institutions ahead of a general election next year. CARTOON PROTESTS Nationwide protests, ostensibly over cartoons deemed blasphemous of the Prophet Mohammad that originated in Denmark, were supported by government and opposition parties alike. But it is Pakistan's political Muslim clerics who have made most capital over an issue they have used to express anti-American and anti-Musharraf sentiments. Friday's protests were supposed to be the climax of a month of sometimes violent demonstrations that have resulted in a handful of deaths. Protesters from a 1,000-strong march in the southern city of Karachi chased and beat a dog wrapped in the Stars and Stripes, while chanting slogans of "Allah-o-Akbar", "Taliban zindabad", and "Mullah Omar zindabad", or "God is Great", "Long live the Taliban" and "Long Live Mullah Omar". Islamist opposition leaders vowed more protests on Saturday. Security operations were in overdrive in Islamabad, a small, quiet, wooded city, ahead of Bush's arrival. Sniffer dogs and electronic equipment were used to scour the airport and surrounding area, and there were checkpoints at entry points to the capital, while the broad Constitution Avenue leading to the presidency, parliament, government ministries, and the diplomatic enclave was closed off. http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-03-03T124719Z_01_ISL175350_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-PAKISTAN.xml --- (2) Pakistan observes strike over blasphemous cartoons Dawn March 3, 2006 Friday Safar 2, 1427 http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/03/welcome.htm KARACHI, March 3 (AFP) - Anti-Bush protesters held rallies at some places as a paralyzing nationwide shutter-down strike called by a coalition of opposition parties was observed against blasphemous cartoons. The strike was generally observed peacefully throughout the country. In Karachi, however, police fired teargas to disperse around 1,000 stone-throwing Shiite Muslim protesters as they tried to reach the US consulate. Riot police chased the protesters into the narrow lanes of the nearby commercial district, where shops were already shut because of the strike. In Rawalpindi also, police baton-charged around 200 Shiite protesters shouting "Killer Bush, go home" outside a mosque. In Peshawar, police said, around 3,000 people held a rally to protest blasphemous cartoons, while some 4,000 people rallied in Quetta. In Chaman, a small town on the Afghan border, another 3,000 people staged a rally after Friday prayers and raised slogans against Denmark where the blasphemous cartoons were first published. People in Muzaffarabad, capital of quake-ravaged Azad Kashmir, held several rallies including one attended by protesters wearing shrouds. Pakistan's main coalition of Islamic parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, held a rally involving thousands of people in the central city of Multan. Alliance's secretary general Maulana Fazlur Rehman addressed the crowd, witnesses said.(Posted @ 19:00 PST) --- (3) Massive anti-Bush protests in India By Our Correspondent Dawn March 3, 2006 Friday Safar 2, 1427 http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/03/top10.htm - photo: NEW DELHI: Activists of the Socialist Unity Centre of India hold placards during an anti-Bush protest here on Thursday. http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/03/images/top04.jpg - NEW DELHI, March 2: Hundreds of thousands of activists led by the Left parties, which provide crucial support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government staged protests across the country to denounce the visit of US President George Bush on Thursday, dubbing him as a "war criminal". The protests were by and large peaceful barring an incident in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir when several people were injured in a clash between police and Shia demonstrators, Press Trust of India said. In Delhi, Left leaders supported by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, which also supports the government from outside, attacked the prime minister's policies and issued implied threats saying the coalition would "face consequences" if it ignored the Left suggestions. This was quite the opposite of TV analysts who had a field day as they lavished fulsome praise on the Indian and American leaders. "The US President has come to India as a guest of the government but he is not the guest of the people," Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat told a 100,000 strong rally in Delhi. http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/03/top10.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! 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