Comprehensive coverage of anti-US protests

(12 Oct 2001) Karachi 1. Wide shot of huge crowd or protesters cheering 2. Speaker addressing crowd 3. Police on the streets as protesters walk past 4. Police running and firing tear gas at protesters 5. Police running and firing through fence 6. Police firing tear gas 7. Fire in the street 8. Ambulance passing 9. Burnt scooter 10. Police standing by burnt out vehicle Quetta 11. Men marching and chanting 12. Armed police marching alongside demonstrators 13. Men marching and chanting 14. Police watching 15. Crowd at rally 16. Speaker addressing crowd 17. Various crowd chanting 18. Police in car 19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shoaib Suddle, Baluchistan inspector general "The government has taken a decision that those Afghan immigrants who try to take the law into their hands will be deported straight away." Islamabad 20. Various of men washing before prayers 21. Various of activity at entrance to mosque 22. People at stall collecting money, reportedly for guns for the Taliban 23. Close up money on table Islamabad 24. Demonstrators with effigy of Bush 25. Banner - 'America the big terrorist' 26. Various of protestors burning George Bush's effigy and jumping on the fire 27. Wide shot of news briefing 28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Riaz Mohammad Khan, Foreign Ministry Spokesman "Today the situation has been very normal across the country. God's blessing, this is a very large country - 145 million people - so there has been normalcy. There have been protests here and there, they have been peaceful." Peshawar 29. Wide of mass march 30. Marchers 31. Top shot of security onlooking 32. Various protesters with Bush effigy 33. Crowd with flag with white circle on black - group who have joined the fight with the Taliban 34. Armoured vehicle with soldiers 35. Blair effigy being burnt 36. Pan from protestors to men hitting Blair effigy with a stick STORYLINE: In Karachi on Friday thousands of Islamic militants clashed with police, hurling stones, burning cars and setting a fast-food restaurant on fire. Seven people were wounded as security forces fought back with batons, gunfire in the air and volleys of tear gas. Leaders of major Muslim political parties, who had called for protests issued calls for a nationwide strike on Monday to protest Pakistan's support of the U-S-led military strikes in neighbouring Afghanistan. Heavy security was in place in major extremist strongholds, including Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar. Crowds were generally modest, but in the southern port city of Karachi several thousand demonstrators - most of them Afghan refugees and ethnic Pashtuns who sympathise with them - tore through the streets for hours. Friday, the main Muslim prayer day, has become a frequent day of trouble, and this is the first such prayer day since the Afghanistan military strikes began. But the government said things were under control, and that the country had been relatively peaceful. President General Pervez Musharraf insists most Pakistanis support his decision to help the United States root out terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden. Nonetheless, the government has said it would deal firmly with anyone who protests violently or acts against Pakistan's national interest. In Peshawar, armored personnel carriers parked on corners and heavily armed soldiers lined the streets and hunkered down in sandbag bunkers. But when several thousand protesters demonstrated on Friday afternoon, everything stayed peaceful. Young men screaming "Jihad is our way" were signing up to fight in Afghanistan in support of its rigidly Islamic Taliban. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...