PESHAWAR, Pakistan A mass rally of Islamists wound up here Wednesday after three days of bitter anti-West speeches and pledges of support for the Taleban militia in Afghanistan, said AFP.

Organizers said around one million people, mostly members of Pakistani fundamentalist parties but also clerics and teachers from abroad, had attended the conference but witnesses put the numbers at around 200,000.

The gathering, convened by Pakistani fundamentalist group the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Sunni Muslim School of Deoband.

Witnesses said it had turned into a mass rally in support of the puritanical Taleban Islamic militia, which controls most of neighboring Afghanistan, as well as indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Some 200 speakers had addressed the conference since it began Monday, with many making calls for jihad, or holy war, against Western powers who are accused of trying to undermine Islam.