(16 Mar 2003)
1. Various of huge crowd marching through street carrying anti-war banners
2. Close of banner reading "US Axis of evil"
3. Various of protesters chanting
4. Mid shot of feet of protesters walking
5. Various of crowd standing around giant drawing of US President George W Bush drawn on pavement
6. Various of crowd in street
7. Mid shot of group on stage before cheering crowd
8. Various of crowd cheering
9. Speaker addressing crowd
10. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Fazal-ur-Rehman, Malana (religious title), Head of Jamiad-Ulama-Islam:
"Attacking Iraq is the announcement of US death. In Afghanistan, the US wants to run away but we would like to tell them that Muslim nations will not leave them in peace in Iraq."
10. Various of crowd chanting
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Head of Jamaat-e-Islami:
"God has given us a chance in the war of justice and evil that we should slap on the face of America."
12. Close of sign reading "East and West, Islam is best."
13. Close of sign saying "Bush is the real terrorist"
14. Various of crowd burning figure in effigy
15. Cheering crowd throwing newspapers and other objects into the flames
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in the bustling Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Sunday to protest a possible US war on Iraq, in a second of two anti-war demonstrations that organisers had optimistically dubbed "Million Man Marches."
Carrying banners and white flags saying "God is Great" in Arabic, supporters of the anti-US alliance chanted slogans "Down with America" and "No war for oil."
Loudspeakers called for jihad, or Muslim holy war. "Wake up Pakistanis. It's time for jihad. Your Islamic faith is calling on you," one crowd leader said.
Organisers claimed about a (m) million people participated in the march in Rawalpindi, adjacent to Islamabad, amid tight security.
Police gave a far lower figure for the turnout, but journalists at the scene said it was one of the largest rallies in recent years and could easily have been half a million people.
A policeman in Rawalpindi's police emergency department, Nasir Kazmi, said there were about 30-thousand people in the rally, which was organised by the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal, or United Action Forum, a grouping of hardline Islamic parties.
Pakistan's President Musharraf is a key ally of the US in its war against terrorism in neighbouring Afghanistan, and opposition parties frequently criticise his policies.
Security was tight, though organisers had pledged the rally would be peaceful.
Last Sunday, nearly 100-thousand people rallied in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
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