Wednesday, 30 January 2008 MUSHARRAF IS DOING BUSH’S JOB! – say 8,000 Pakistani demonstrators outside Downing Street Warning: getimagesize(/home/wrp/public_html/images/photos/thumbnails/08-01-29-2807.JPG) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wrp/public_html/themes/wrp/theme.php on line 245

Part of the strong demonstration against Musharraf’s visit, as the military dictator went to Downing StreetUP TO 8,000 demonstrators took part in a mass picket of Downing Street on Monday, to protest against the visit of Pakistan’s military ruler General Musharraf.Just weeks after the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, Musharraf travelled to London to meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown.Demonstrators shouted: ‘Go Musharraf, go!’ and held up flags and pictures of Benazir Bhutto and placards condemning military rule and demanding the restoration of democratic rights.Supporters of Benazir Bhutto’s party, the Pakistan People’s Party, as well as the former cricketer Imran Khan, were among those who took part.
One demonstrator, M. Sarjov, said: ‘We are from Baluchistan, a country divided by the British colonialists in 1872.‘From the moment of division, we have resisted the colonial borders – which are not wanted – dividing the Baluch nation, which is against every human right.‘The whole Baluch community, all classes – the whole populaton – resisted division.‘We are here to demonstrate against extra-judicial killing in Baluchistan – more than 8,000 academics and other professionals, like journalists, as well as students, are missing.‘Mostly they are from the Baluchistan Student Organisation, which is a socialist organisation, as well as tribal chiefs who are missing.‘So we are here to demand international intervention.‘We Baluch, we believe Pakistan’s institutions cannot and will not address the Baluch grievances, because Baluchistan is the third biggest untapped oil or mineral reserve in the world...