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July 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Masses of demonstrators poured into the streets in the capital city of Islamabad, southern port city of Karachi, northwestern city of Peshawar and the second largest city of Lahore on Friday, shouting anti-US slogans and holding banners.
In a bid to pacify angry protesters, Pakistani custom officials have announced plans to check every truck carrying NATO supplies to the neighboring country of Afghanistan to ensure that they do not convey lethal weapons.
“We scanned the containers randomly in the past, but now every container will be duly scanned,” Karachi customs spokesman Qamar Thalho said.
“We can seize any item, anything that be, if it is not mentioned in the agreements between Pakistan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and NATO,” the official added.
Islamabad on Wednesday agreed to reopen land routes into Afghanistan and end a bitter months-long standoff with Washington after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was sorry for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in an air strike in November 2011.
The incident enraged Pakistan, prompting the closure of the supply lines and plunging ties with the United States to a new low, after a secret US raid into Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan’s blockade on NATO supply routes into Afghanistan forced the United States and its allies to rely on longer, more expensive northern routes through Central Asia, Russia and the Caucasus. The move cost the US military about USD 100 million a month, according to the Pentagon.
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