SIALKOT: Hundreds of people from various walks of life participated in a number of processions across the district on Friday to condemn the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

Most of the processions were held after Friday prayers. Protesters carrying banners and placards chanted anti-Myanmar government slogans and burnt the flags of Myanmar.

KASUR: The Kasur Tax Bar Association passed a resolution in a meeting on Friday condemning the massacre of Rohingyas. Bar president Mian Ghulam Ahmed said the silence of the world organisations, including the United Nation, and the rulers of Pakistan over the communal tensions was criminal. Also, religious groups, traders, lawyers and members of civil society took to the roads to show their solidarity with the Rohingyas.

GUJRANWALA: A large number of people from different walks of life took out rallies and condemned the killings of Rohingyas. The activists of the Jamaat-iIslami, Idara Tanzemul Islam, Idara Raza-i-Mustafa, Anjuman Tulba Islam, Pal(istan Awami Tehreek and Khaksar Tehreek were on the forefront in rallies.

MUZAFFARGARH: Rallies were taken out against the Myanmar government over killings of Rohingya Muslims in the district on the call of the Jamaat-iIslami (JI).

After the Friday prayers, all shops of Muzaffargarh district were closed. The roads to Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan were blocked for hours where JI leaders made speeches and condemned the killings of Rohingya Muslims. The participants in the rallies raised slogans and demanded the government cut off diplomatic ties with the Myanmar government.