Shia Muslim candle-vigil and rallies on Black Day against Peshawar massacre

On a call from Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari, secretary general of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, Shia Muslims observed Wednesday as a black day across Pakistan to mourn the brutal massacre of school-going children in Peshawar.

Supporters of the MWM participated largely in Sindh-wide rallies and demonstrations. In Karachi, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen’s supporters observed a candle-vigil after sunset. Candles and earthen lamps were lightened in commemoration of the martyr children outside of the mausoleum of father of nation Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi.

Allama Mukhtar Imami, Maulana Ali Anwar Jafari, Mubashir Hassan, Ali Hussain Naqvi and other officials of the MWM spoke to the protestors at the rallies and demonstrations.

They condemned the Taliban terrorist attack on army public school in Peshawar saying that pro-terrorists policy of the government and pro-talks policy of some influential politicians and clerics encouraged them to kill innocent children at will.

They said that parliamentary parties moot at Peshawar was not enough because they have held several such shows to hoodwink people. They said that Pakistani nation was fed up with the ruling class’ tactics and now they need action on ground instead of lip-service and empty statements. They said that all the takfiri terrorists be hanged publicly.

The MWM’s officials said that school going Shia children wore black armbands and recited soora fateha to rest martyrs souls. The Shia children vowed to keep the memory of martyr children alive and compel all to come out against the Taliban terrorists.