LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) ? Prominent hard-line Islamists are leading thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan's decision to allow NATO to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan.
The demonstration in the eastern city of Lahore was organized by the Difah-e-Pakistan, or Defense of Pakistan, Council, a group of Islamist politicians and religious leaders.
The group began its protest Sunday in the center of Lahore, where several thousand supporters assembled with dozens of buses, cars and motorbikes.
They plan to link up with thousands more supporters on the city's edge and ride to Islamabad in a so-called "long march" against the supply line.
Pakistan closed the route in November in retaliation for American airstrikes that killed NATO troops. It reopened it last week after the U.S. said it was sorry.
Associated Pressjoan crawford joan crawford john goodman kendall marshall whitney houston news sylvia plath whitney houston
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