HUNDREDS of protesters continued to block a main road to Pakistan’s capital yesterday after the military failed to remove them the day before in an operation which left six civilians dead.  

Two hundred people — including 80 members of the security forces — were injured in the clashes between riot police and protesters who have been occupying the road in Faizabad for three weeks.

The sit-in protesters are demanding the resignation of Law Minister Zahid Hamid for what they consider as blasphemy after he  omitted references to the Prophet Muhammed in a parliamentary Bill.