DHAKA: Activists from right-wing religious parties led protests in Pakistan on Friday to denounce a US drone strike that killed the leader of the country’s Taliban, after the movement named a notorious hardliner as his successor.

Pakistan last week reacted angrily to the drone attack that killed Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in the North Waziristan tribal area.

The government said it destroyed efforts to begin talks to end the TTP’s bloody six-year insurgency that has left thousands of soldiers, police and civilians dead.

Pakistan interior minister accused Washington of sabotaging peace efforts, and former cricketer Imran Khan, head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party, called for a blockade of Nato convoys to Afghanistan, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2014 HRS, NOV 08, 2013
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