Pakistan: "Countrywide protests vent anger over attack"

from pakistan the nation.....
"Hundreds of enraged people took to the streets across the country Sunday, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in Nato airstrikes. The rallies were organised by Opposition in major cities of the country, where opposition to the government’s US alliance is rampant. 


In Karachi, the port city used by the United States to ship supplies to troops fighting in Afghanistan, more than 700 people gathered outside the US consulate, an AFP photographer said. They shouted: “down with America, stay away Americans, Pakistan is ours, we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our army,“ while riot police were deployed near the consulate. Outside the Karachi Press Club, dozens of political activists burnt an effigy of President Obama, an AFP photographer added. In the central city of Multan, more than 300 PML-N activists as well as local traders took to the streets, burning US and Nato flags".....READ MORE