Thousands attend pro-Palestine protest in Pakistan, chant anti-American slogans

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Jamaat-e-Islami supporters, including women and children, marched for several kilometres in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Sunday..

They held banners and posters with slogans opposing Israel and the United States and in support of the Palestinians...

Thousands of supporters from Pakistan's main religious political party rallied in the capital, Islamabad, on Sunday against Israel's bombing of Palestinians in Gaza, chanting anti-American slogans and accusing the US of backing the aggressor...

Another religious party, Jamiat Ulema Islam, held a massive rally in the southwestern city of Quetta, where its leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman expressed solidarity and support for Gazans...

Also on Sunday, Aurat March, a womens advocacy group, held protests in several Pakistani cities against a government policy to arrest and deport all foreigners found living in the country illegally after October 31, including at least 2 million Afghans...

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