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Pakistan erupts after US jails 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui
Pakistan's prime minister hailed a scientist convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers as the "daughter of the nation" today, and vowed to redouble efforts to secure her return to Pakistan.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets after a New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist and mother of three, to 86 years in jail.
Police fired teargas and scuffled with protesters surging towards the heavily fortified US consulate in her hometown, Karachi.
In Multan people burned posters of Barack Obama and the former ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
At least 5,000 people attended the largest, and most peaceful, rally in Peshawar, where a mostly male crowd cried anti-American and jihadi slogans.