QUETTA, Pakistan, March 26 (UPI) -- A crowd of angry tribesmen stoned the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's Baluchistan province protesting the killing of 16 Pakistanis.
The protesters carried banners inscribed with slogans against the Karzai government. They damaged a portrait of President Hamid Karzai and vandalized the consulate's signboard and windows, Pakistan's The News International reports.
The action was organized by Noorzai tribesmen Saturday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan in southern Pakistan. They were protesting the killing of 16 Pakistani nationals by Afghan troops in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, last Saturday.
Noorzai elders claim tribe members were killed by a rival Achakzai commander in Afghanistan.
Afghan security in the area says the Pakistani nationals were militants who had crossed the border into Afghanistan. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry claims they were civilians traveling to the New Year Festival in northern Afghanistan.
