Abbottabad/Peshawar/Quetta: Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Pakistan on Friday, denouncing the US raid which killed the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
In Kuchlak near Quetta, close to the Afghan border, protesters chanted "Osama is alive", holding aloft placards with pictures of bin Laden.
"After the martyrdom of Osama, billions, trillions of Osamas will be born," warned Abdullah Sittar Chishti, who works for the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema Islam political party.
Some protesters set fire to an American flag.
Further north, in Peshawar, hundreds of people marched through the town after Friday prayers.
Protestors were seen carrying green flags of the Jamat-e-Islami political party, who organised the demonstration.
A local Jamat-e-Islami leader called for "proof or evidence" about the US Special Forces raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, accusing US President Barack Obama of using the raid as part of a ploy to win a second term in office.
"What they want more is to put pressure on the Pakistani government, and Obama wants to win his next election by using this drama," said Shabir Ahmed Khan.
In Abbottabad, the town where bin Laden was captured and killed, another protest saw hundreds taking part.
Waving Jamat-e-Islami party flags, and carrying homemade placards, some people chanted "Osama is alive" and "burn the US parliament".
The leader of Jamat-e-Islami, Mohammad Ibrahim, said supporters had come "on the highways and roads" to Abbottabad to take part in the protest, and condemn "the American assault and attack upon the solidarity and sovereignty of Pakistan"
Protesters also burned tyres in the streets.
Bin Laden, the face of global Islamist militancy, was killed in a firefight in Abbottabad with elite American forces early on Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a low key finale to a furtive decade on the run.
In Kuchlak near Quetta, close to the Afghan border, protesters chanted "Osama is alive", holding aloft placards with pictures of bin Laden.
"After the martyrdom of Osama, billions, trillions of Osamas will be born," warned Abdullah Sittar Chishti, who works for the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema Islam political party.
Some protesters set fire to an American flag.
Further north, in Peshawar, hundreds of people marched through the town after Friday prayers.
Protestors were seen carrying green flags of the Jamat-e-Islami political party, who organised the demonstration.
A local Jamat-e-Islami leader called for "proof or evidence" about the US Special Forces raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, accusing US President Barack Obama of using the raid as part of a ploy to win a second term in office.
"What they want more is to put pressure on the Pakistani government, and Obama wants to win his next election by using this drama," said Shabir Ahmed Khan.
In Abbottabad, the town where bin Laden was captured and killed, another protest saw hundreds taking part.
Waving Jamat-e-Islami party flags, and carrying homemade placards, some people chanted "Osama is alive" and "burn the US parliament".
The leader of Jamat-e-Islami, Mohammad Ibrahim, said supporters had come "on the highways and roads" to Abbottabad to take part in the protest, and condemn "the American assault and attack upon the solidarity and sovereignty of Pakistan"
Protesters also burned tyres in the streets.
Bin Laden, the face of global Islamist militancy, was killed in a firefight in Abbottabad with elite American forces early on Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a low key finale to a furtive decade on the run.
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