Pakistanis stage new protest over NATO route

Pakistan and the US reached a deal to reopen land routes that NATO uses to supply its troops [Reuters]

Thousands of people in northwest Pakistan have protested against the reopening of NATO supply routes into Afghanistan and are planning to turn the protest into a march. The march, organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, a leading member of the Defence of Pakistan coalition of right wing and Islamist groups, began on Monday in the city of Peshawar. Demonstrators said they would spend the night at the park in Peshawar near a highway used by NATO trucks supplying foreign forces in Afghanistan. Between 5,000 and 8,000 party activists had reached the site by the evening, police said. A spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami said 50,000 people would join the protest from the northwestern city of Peshawar to the nearby town of Jamrud, close to the Afghan border. Pakistan reopened overland routes to NATO convoys crossing into.... Continue Reading...