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CNN Sunday Morning

Protests Continue Outside Jacobabad, Pakistan

Aired October 14, 2001 - 09:23   ET

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DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR: As we've been telling you this morning, there was that demonstration in Jacobabad in Pakistan. And in Islamabad, our senior international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour is there and she can bring us up to date on that protest and what else is going on in the region -- Christiane.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Donna, these protests here are drawing much, much fewer crowds than ones you've just mentioned in Europe. There was a protest here in Islamabad, also, as you mentioned in Jacobabad, in the southern part of Pakistan. This is around the military base that the United States is being allowed to place troops and military hardware. There are two of those that they've been given over to in Pakistan and the hard-line Islamic parties have called people out onto the streets to protest that.

Indeed, they've been trying to get into the city of Jacobabad. They -- hasn't been -- they've been prevented by the police so far and they've not been able to get close to the military base. But military and medical officials down there tell CNN that at least one person was killed, several others have been injured. There was tear gas disposed and police have been ordered to use whatever means necessary to keep these protests under control.

This, of course, coming a day ahead of the Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to Pakistan and then onto India. He will obviously be getting appraisal of how the situation is here, giving support to the Pakistani president and looking to help India and Pakistan try to diffuse the tensions over Kashmir, the disputed region that is causing so much tension between these two nuclear powers in this region -- Donna.

KELLEY: Christiane Amanpour in Islamabad, thank you.

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