It was the first drone strike since U.S. special forces killed the al Qaeda leader on May 2 not far from Islamabad, further straining ties between the strategic allies.

About 1,500 Islamists demonstrated against bin Laden's killing, saying more figures like him would arise to wage holy war against the United States.

Pre-dominantly Muslim Pakistan has yet to see any major backlash after U.S. forces killed bin Laden early on Monday in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad.

But his death has angered Islamists, with one major hardline political party calling on the government to end its support for the U.S. war on militancy.

"Jihad (holy war) against America will not stop with the death of Osama," Fazal Mohammad Baraich, a cleric, said amid shouts of "Down with America" at a demonstration near the city of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province in the southwest.

"Osama bin Laden is a shaheed (martyr). The blood of Osama will give birth to thousands of other Osamas."

Some protesters burned American flags.

Anti-American sentiment runs high in Pakistan, despite billions of dollars in aid for the nuclear-armed, impoverished country.

Pakistan's religious parties have not traditionally done well at the ballot box, but they wield considerable influence on the streets of a country where Islam is becoming more radicalized.

The United States war on militancy is unpopular in Pakistan because of the perception of high civilian deaths from drone attacks against suspected militants along the Afghan border and the feeling they are a violation of the country's sovereignty.

The Pakistani government said bin Laden's death was a milestone in the fight against militancy although it objected to the raid on him as a violation of its sovereignty.

Suspicion that some Pakistani security forces might have known bin Laden was hiding in the country has threatened to strain ties between the allies.

Pakistan has denied any knowledge of the al Qaeda leader's whereabouts and the army threatened on Thursday to cut intelligence and military cooperation with the United States if it mounted more attacks.

Pakistani cooperation is seen as crucial for efforts to end the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

(Reporting by Gul Yousafzai in Quetta, Haji Mujtaba in North Waziristan; Writing by Augustine Anthony; Editing by Michael Georgy and Robert Birsel)

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Such protests are also well known tactic to willfully obfuscate the real situation in Pakistan and related expansionist goals to annex Kashmir and colonize Afghanistan.

When NATO forces killed 24 Pakistani troops while apparently trying to target the Taliban, Pakistan rejected all explanations, refused to join an investigation, and cut off NATO supply routes. But there are many reports confirming Pakistani firings on Afghan-Nato positions to help Taliban fighters. In Kashmir area they have been firing to help terrorists cross border. Its well known tactic, but never accepted.

The Real Pakistani Rulers (Army and ISI) would never agree to be part of any investigations as they know what they are trying hard to hide from the world.

Most of People of Pakistan and their back bending civilian card board cut outs placed for window dress it as democratic nation had absolutely no problems with Osama Bin Laden, found to be living in Abottabad, as he was a Muslim fighter waging a just war on the corrupted west.

Parvez Musharraf had no problem in accepting that, had he known about Osama Hiding in Abbottabad, he would have milked the Americans even more.

He skillfully fooled the American leaders, commentators and public by posing with his family and dogs, so as to be accepted and promoted as a modern-westernized family man.

But he represents in all its true deadly color what a Pakistani Army General is and what he can do with out bothering to inform the so called civilian leadership of Pakistan.

He had refused to salute visiting Indian Prime Minister and went ahead to mount an attack on Kashmir, got about 500 helpless Pakistani soldiers killed-refused to take their bodies back and yet could so easily throw away the Civilian Prime Minister Navaz Sharif and become a dictator

Actually most Pakistanis loved him for not saluting the Indian Prime Minister and his covert attack to annex Kashmir. Death of over 500 Pakistani soldiers and their dead bodies were never mentioned and forgotten conveniently.

But death of these 24 Pakistani soldiers are being used conveniently exploited to raise passions and what is possible to attain and reinforce Pakistani Army hold in the country.

Musharraf too, had no problem trying to be the paragon of peaceful coexistence by going to India to meet the same Indian prime minister, he had refused to salute, while visiting Pakistan.

The core issue is Pakistan has always used violence and terrorism as foreign policy tool to realize the highly twisted expansionist goals to annex Kashmir and colonize Afghanistan.

Angry, troubled and confused American tried their best to feign ignorance of persistent Pakistani duplicity for a decade.

Pakistani rulers cry aloud and beat their chest about violation of their exhaled sovereignty to locate and kill Osama Bin Laden along with recent incident involving killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers.

But they have never bothered about sovereignty of helpless neighbors and have violated their sovereignty again and again with no remorse.

Multiple Terror attacks in India, Afghanistan and else where in the world with well entrenched Pakistani terror foot prints need no further proof.

More over no proof will ever force these myopic Pakistani Rulers to change their support, incubation and facilitation of Islamic Terror along with furthering their own expansionist objectives.

You can wake up a sleeping person to escape from danger but can do any thing to a person pretending to be asleep and gloating over the imminent destruction and mayhem for so called larger national interests.

Former Pakistani Ambassador to USA, Hussain Haqqani has made, an otherwise well known observation : "Hostility between India and Pakistan continues; in Pakistan it serves as an important element for national identification

They have tried to annex Kashmir by violence, terrorism and perpetual destruction. They assume that India will eventually get fed up with violence-bad publicity and hand over Kashmir on platter. For this Pakistani army since 1989 , been pushing trained terrorists, fund trained and motivate Youth in Kashmir along with funding publicity campaign by like of Mr, Fai in Washington.

Same way, they have only used and milked wealthy but unwise Americans towards their own goals to eventually colonize Afghanistan.

Promotion of Jihad to evict Russians from Afghanistan suited likes of Gen. Zia, an unabashed Islamist and obscurantist. of the worst order.

For some unexplainable reasons Pakistan has been bestowed with one of the most incompetent civilian thinkers, leaders and rulers, who never had the wider vision, honest, ability, skill and influence to change the sixty year old national narrative built on religious hate and antagonism directed toward India and a deep desire to destroy it and having no concern for well known blow-back destruction.

Till Pakistani society throws up a modern-visionary- able and influential civilian leader who has guts to change the age old narrative, nothing much will change in Pakistan and in the region.

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Pakistan rejected all explanations, refused to join an investigation, and cut off NATO supply routes. But there are many reports confirming Pakistani firings on Afghan-Nato positions to help Taliban fighters. Afghanistan and else where in the world with well entrenched Pakistani terror foot prints need no further proof. video to iMovie