[DAWN] Around 10,000 people protesting the execution of Mumtaz Qadri -- a former Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
police commando hanged last month for assassinating Punjab governor Salman Taseer -- breached Islamabad's Red Zone Sunday evening.
The government has called in the army to control the law and order situation in the capital.
The protesters are staging a sit-in outside the Parliament and have refused to clear the area unless their demands - which include the imposition of Shariah law in Pakistain - are met. The demonstration that started early Sunday evening is still underway early Monday morning, although the crowd has diminished from 10,000 to around 3,000 protesters.
They removed containers and blockades on the way to the Parliament House and also set some containers to fire before staging a sit-in outside the building, where fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
anti-government speeches are being delivered.
Earlier in the day, riot police used tear gas and batons to disperse the stone-pelting crowd from the high-security zone outside the parliament building.