10,000 attend funeral in Pakistan for man executed by U.S. government |
Some 10,000 people packed a stadium November 19 in Quetta, Pakistan, for the funeral of Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani man executed in the state of Virginia for allegedly killing two CIA agents in 1993. He had been seized by FBI agents in Pakistan in 1997. Kasi’s November 14 execution sparked angry protests across the country. Demonstrators called Washington "the biggest terrorist state."
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