Demo against army offensive, security in the capital
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(18 Oct 2009)
Lahore
1. Exterior of Jamaat-e-Islami headquarters with people gathering for protest
2. Protesters walking, waving flags
3. Close of young boy at protest with green headband
4. Mid of protesters
5. Wide of protesters with banners, UPSOUND: chanting
6. Close of man chanting, UPSOUND: (Urdu) "Go America go"
7. Mid of security
8. Wide shot, protesters chanting
9. Wide of stage with Liaqat Baloch, vice-president of Jamaat-e-Islami, Islamic political party
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Liaqat Baloch, vice-president of Jamaat-e-Islami
"We should stop immediately the operation in our tribal areas, and we should press America and NATO forces to leave Afghanistan, in order to bring peace and harmony and restore the sovereignty of Afghanistan."
11. Various, protesters chanting
12. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Rana Mannan, protester
"American defence forces, personnel, are settling in Islamabad and weakening the country. American and Indian lobbies are involved in all these incidents in Pakistan. The army action in Waziristan is in fact conquering our own people. We condemn these forces' actions."
13. Liaqat Baloch addressing crowd
Islamabad
14. Mid of vehicles driving though security check point
15. Armed police officer
16. Close up of gun
17. Various of police officers checking cars
18. Wide of cars going through check point
19. Various of people at newspaper kiosk
20. Mid of headline reading: (English) "15 die as Army launches 'mother of all battles' in South Waziristan"
21. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Saleem Anwer, vox pop:
"I think it is a good step that the government has launched this Waziristan operation. I hope it will eliminate terrorists it will help maintain peace."
22. Mid of a city market
23. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Shahzad Abbasi, vox pop:
"All this terrorism started after 9/11, the surrender that Musharraf did after 9/11 we are all feeling its impact. This policy needs to be changed because before that there was no terrorism in our country. At present the American policies we have today all this is a result of 9/11."
13. Wide of street
STORYLINE:
Around 2-thousand people took to the streets of the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday, demonstrating against perceived American involvement in Pakistani affairs, and against the ongoing Pakistan military operation in South Waziristan.
The protest was organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami, a Pakistani Islamic political party, which was founded in Lahore and has its headquarters there.
Protesters waved banners and chanted anti-American slogans.
Liaqat Baloch, the vice-president of Jamaat-e-Islami, called for US and NATO forces to leave Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Another protester, Rana Mannan, condemned ongoing Pakistani operations in Waziristan as "conquering our own people."
The army said on Sunday 60 militants had been killed on the first day of the operation, while six soldiers had died.
It was not possible to independently verify those figures because reporters have been stopped from getting close to the battlefield.
The Taliban claimed to have inflicted "heavy casualties" on the army and to have pushed invading soldiers back into their bases.
Launched on Saturday, the operation involved 30-thousand troops backed by artillery advancing from three directions.
The Pakistani army is up against about 10-thousand local militants and about 1,500 foreign fighters, most of them from Central Asia.
They control roughly 1,275 square miles (3,310 square kilometres) of territory, or about half of South Waziristan, in areas loyal to former militant chief Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US missile strike in August.
Officials have said they envisage the operation will last two months, after which severe winter weather will make fighting difficult.
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