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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Name change stirs Pakistan protest
Eight people have been killed in northwestern Pakistan during protests against plans to rename the country's North West Frontier Province, witnesses reported. The protests erupted on Monday and continued for a second day on Tuesday, as scores of people took to the streets of the city of Abbottabad. The demonstrators were protesting against a parliamentary proposalto change the name of the North West Frontier Province, or NWFP, to Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa.
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