Karachi (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan) organized a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club against the Israeli attack and aggression on the Sumood Flotilla. Hundreds of men and women participated in the protest, carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans in support of the flotilla.
Leaders from various political and religious parties, civil society, and human rights organizations addressed the protest, including Asadullah Bhutto (President Milli Yakjehti Council Sindh), Dr. Merajul Huda Siddiqui (Naib Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami), former MPA of MQM Pakistan Major (R) Qamar Abbas, Arshad Naqvi (Pakistan Peoples Party), Allama Aqeel Anjum Qadri (JUP), Allama Qazi Ahmed Noorani (JUP), Pir Azhar Ali Shah Hamdani (PML-N), former MNA Muhammad Hussain Mehnati, Allama Sadiq Jafferi (MWM Karachi President), Allama Mubashir Hassan, (MWM), Faisal Baloch (Markazi Muslim League), Younas Boniri (ANP), Erum Butt (PTI), Hamza Naqvi (Pakistan Nazryati Party), Pastor Emmanuel (Christian leader), Haseeb Jamali (lawyers’ representative), Jamshed Hussain (Human Rights Council of Pakistan) and Dr. Sabir Abu Maryam (Secretary General, Palestine Foundation Pakistan).
Speakers said that the so-called Trump Peace Plan has already been rejected and only Palestinians have the right to decide the future of Palestine. They stated that the United States has no authority to impose Israeli occupation under the name of peace. “Palestine has always belonged to the Palestinians, while Israel is an illegal and usurping state,” they asserted.
The speakers strongly condemned Israel’s aggression on the Sumood Flotilla and urged world governments, particularly Islamic and Arab states, to adopt a joint strategy to defend Gaza and take practical steps to break the siege.
They also termed President Trump’s peace plan as anti-Palestinian and severely criticized Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s reported support for the plan, demanding that he withdraw his statement. Furthermore, they called on the Government of Pakistan to revive the historic stance of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Iqbal in support of the Palestinian cause.
During the protest, participants chanted slogans including “Down with America,” “Down With Israel,” and “Freedom for Palestine.”
Among those present were Abdul Waheed Younas, Yawar Abbas, Ibrahim Chitrali, Ijaz Fazal, Mufti Muhammad Saeed, Nasreen Hussain, Jabeen Alam, Fareed Memon, Qazi Zahid Hussain, and others.
