Pakistan mourns slain soldiers

  • 12 years ago
Thousands of people across Pakistan have demonstrated against a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 25 soldiers.

In Karachi, crowds gathered outside the US consulate shouting anti-American slogans and in Lahore protesters burned US flags.

Pakistan's government says the soldiers died when NATO helicopters and fighter jets fired missiles on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest.

In response to the attack, Pakistan's government has told the US to leave an air base in the country's south east and has cut off NATO's supply route to Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reports from Pakistan.

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