Thousands of people gathered in south-western Pakistan...

Thousands of people gathered in south-western Pakistan for the funeral of a Pakistani executed in the United States for killing two CIA employees, and hailed Mir Amil Kansi as an Islamic hero.
The country's new national assembly, meeting for the first time this week after three years of military rule, also interrupted its proceedings to offer a brief prayer for Kansi.
Kansi, 38, was executed by lethal injection on November 14 in a case that sparked protests in Pakistan and fears of retaliation against US interests.
A Islamist political leader led the prayer in parliament in the capital Islamabad condemning those who helped in the arrest of Kansi in Pakistan in 1997 and allowed him to be taken back to the United States for trial.
"God, destroy those who handed him over to America," said Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a religious party leader from Kansi's native city of Quetta, which borders Afghanistan. "God, his murderers whether in America or in Pakistan, may they meet their fate soon."
In the southwestern city of Quetta, thousands of people gathered at a stadium to mourn Kansi.
"Kansi is a soldier of Islam," an Islamic cleric told the crowd. "He did not bow his head in front of America, he gave his life."
Kansi was convicted in the United States for killing two CIA employees outside the organization's Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1993 in anger over US policy in the Middle East.
Witnesses said it was the largest funeral prayer in Quetta in living memory but seemed to be taking place peacefully. The city was in mourning with shops closed, streets deserted and black flags hoisted on roof tops.
The arrival of Kansi's body in Pakistan was greeted by a crowd of several thousand people chanting anti-US slogans, including "crush the United States."