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Violent protests in Quetta against Afghanistan strikes

More than 10,000 protestors poured out into the streets of the Pakistani city of Quetta, violently agitating against the US-led strikes on Afghanistan, which started on Sunday night.

The demonstrators set fire to buildings, and damaged vehicles to protest the strikes.

The violence came after the chief clerics of several mosques in Quetta reacted to the military action unleashed on the Taleban by announcing over their public address systems that jihad was now 'mandatory' for Pakistani Muslims.

Students and radical pro-Taleban Islamic groups took out at least three separate demonstrations in Quetta.

Witnesses said the protestors set fire to several small buildings, including a bank and a cinema hall, and smashed the windscreens of cars parked along the demonstration route.

As the protestors advanced towards the luxury Serena Hotel, where several hundred foreign journalists are putting up, police fired up to 20 teargas shells to keep them at bay.

Makeshift barbed-wire fencing was hastily erected across access roads to the hotel.

Earlier, in a bid to put a lid on the protests, the authorities had on Sunday night ordered the closure of the city's schools, colleges and universities for three days.

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