Pakistan’s Islamists who oppose their country’s anti-terror alliance with Washington burn U.S. and NATO flags during a rally over the reopening of a NATO supply route to Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Thousands Protest Reopening Of NATO Supply Routes In Pakistan -- L.A. Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Thousands of followers of leading Islamist clerics began marching Sunday from the eastern city of Lahore to the capital, Islamabad, to protest Pakistan’s decision to once again let NATO move Afghanistan-bound supply convoys through the country after a seven-month hiatus.
The caravan of protesters was organized by the Defense of Pakistan Council, a coalition of hard-line religious groups that has among its leaders Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, an Islamic cleric who India claims engineered the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. The procession -- made up of buses, cars and motorcycles -- was peaceful and heading toward the capital without incident as of Sunday afternoon.
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