WRAP Security for anti-govt march, Jamaat-e Islami and lawyers' march, Quetta

Описание: (12 Mar 2009)
Karachi
1. Wide of several hundred members of Jamaat-e Islami religious political party marching
2. Various of police clashing with party workers
3. Various of police arresting protesters
4. Police pushing protester into an armoured car
5. Jamaat-e Islami leaders standing on police wagon
Karachi
6. Wide of lawyers marching along road
7. Close up of lawyers and political party workers chanting (Urdu) 'Hooliganism is not acceptable'
8. Woman chanting slogans
9. Lawyer Munir Malik standing on bus door
10. People chanting slogans, carrying Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) opposition political party posters showing party leader Nawaz Sharif
Karachi
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Waseem Ahmad, city chief of police:
"(In Karachi there is no permission to hold) processions, demonstrations and rallies. The police are bound by law to take action against anyone taking part in a procession, rally or demonstration."
12. Police prison van drives away
Quetta
13. Wide of protesters chanting (Pashtu) "Chief Justice should be restored"
14. Low angel shot of people chanting slogans
15. Protester chanting (Pashtu) "No more PCO (provisional constitutional order) judges"
16. Wide of protest
17. Protester standing in front of banner, reading (Urdu) "Pakistan Muslim League-N"
18. Wide of protesters carrying flags of various opposition political parties
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ali Ahmad Kurd, lawyers' leader, president of Supreme Court Bar Association:
"By the long march where hundreds of thousands of people are joining us and when we will reach Constitution Avenue in Islamabad, it would be the climax of the lawyers movement and insh'allah (God willing) we will achieve our target and we will go on sit on our programme till the time, till the moment, till the day when the judges under the Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar are restored."
20. Mid of Kurd in car, waving
21. Lawyers standing beside door of bus chanting (Urdu) "Chief your patriots are countless"
22. Wide of rally
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan joined opposition parties in protests in Karachi on Thursday in defiance of a government ban on street demonstrations.
The lawyers are demanding that President Asif Ali Zardari fulfil a pledge to restore independent-minded judges removed in 2007 by former military President Pervez Musharraf that many believe could be hostile to Zardari.
The showdown threatens to destabilise the one-year-old democratically elected government amid rising Western concerns the country could lose the fight against al-Qaida and Taliban militants along the Afghan border.
Supporters of Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, are also angry about a Supreme Court decision barring him and his brother from elected office.
After the ruling, the federal government dismissed the Punjab provincial administration led by Sharif's brother.
The lawyers, Sharif's party and other small groups plan to travel from cities across the country in a so-called "Long March" and converge on the parliament building in Islamabad on Monday.
They say they will stay there until their demands are met.
The government is trying to stop them from leaving their home cities.
Authorities arrested at least 60 more political activists as they extended a nationwide crackdown.
The arrests took place in Karachi overnight and outside the high court building on Thursday morning, where scuffles briefly broke out between police and protesters, witnesses and city police chief Waseem Ahmad said.
Media reports said the government planned to blockade the capital from the weekend to stop protesters entering.

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