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Anti-government protesters clash with police in Pakistan
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-16 09:28

A protester from Pakistani Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami holds a bamboo stick as he scuffles with a policeman during a countrywide anti-government protest march in Lahore March 15, 2009. Hundreds of protesters, including lawyers and members of the Jamaat-e-Islami religious party, hurled stones at police outside the High Court in Lahore after former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif called supporters onto the streets. [Agencies]

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