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A large number of people from all walks of life participate in an anti-Israeli protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. Fahim Siddiqui / White Star
KARACHI: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” the sea of protesters, mostly members of civil society and youngsters from various universities of the city, chanted slogans at the top of their voices as they filled up the roads around the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.
The participants in demonstration held banners and placards with messages such as ‘You don’t need to be Muslim to stand up for Palestine’, ‘Human rights are not optional’, ‘Israel is a terrorist state, end occupation’, ‘I stand with Gaza’, ‘Free Palestine’, ‘Pakistan stands with Palestine, our hearts bleed for Palestine’, etc. They also played Arabic revolutionary songs.
RELATIVES of the crash victims protest outside the press club on Wednesday. Shakil Adil/White Star
KARACHI: Against the backdrop of photographs of the 97 lives lost in the PK-8303 crash, which happened on May 22, 2020 on the last Friday of last Ramazan, the relatives of the victims, still grieving over their losses, shared before jam-packed media at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday their pain. They are still awaiting justice.
The panaflex, which also had the heading ‘Never to be forgotten’, didn’t have photos of all the 97 victims. Some pictures were just outlines in small frames. They represented those who could not be identified to this day. At the bottom there was also written: ‘Innocent lives lost because of Pakistan International Airlines [PIA] and Civil Aviation Authority [CAA] negligence’.