More than thousand of people have taken to streets in various cities of Pakistan including Karachi, to protest against a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

The students, Business community, members of civil society and others gathered at clifton and expressed their rage over NATO cross-border attack.

In the mean while business community express solidarity with armed forces. The rally continued for one hour. Addressing the rally, representatives of business community Aqeel Karim Dedhi said, ” We are with Pakistan army and Terming the attacks an unprovoked aggression on the sovereignty of the state.

Pakistanis have been staging anti-NATO and anti-US protests since the attack took place on November 26th. They have also blocked ground fuel  supply routes through Pakistan to US forces in Afghanistan.

The government has also blocked the Nato fuel supply via pakistani routes which caused long ques of trucks at frontier terminal and Custom house in Chaman.

Around 270 trucks have stopped at the border.

Pakistan also demanded that the US leave the Shamsi Air Base within 15 days following the NATO attack. NATO hopes an investigation it promised will defuse the crisis and that confidence-building measures can repair ties.