Angry mourners chase away Pakistani officials

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PESHAWAR, Sept 16 (AFP): A chanting throng of more than 100,000 mourners chased away senior Pakistani officials from the funeral of a leading pro-Taliban cleric, police and witnesses said.
They hurled shoes at government officials who tried to enter the sprawling stadium where the prayers were being held for Maulana Hassan Jan, 69, who was killed Saturday in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
"Get out!" they chanted when Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao arrived, and provincial chief minister Akram Durrani was given similar treatment.
Security officials hurriedly escorted Durrani out of the stadium to other chants directed against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and US President George W. Bush.
The crowd, mostly made up of students at religious schools, also smashed windows and gates at the stadium, witnesses said.
Provincial information minister Asif Iqbal said more than 100,000 people attended the prayers, and that Jan was buried at a graveyard on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Jan, who preached a message of harmony among different Muslim sects, was a respected Islamic teacher who had pupils in Pakistan, Afghanistan and several other Arab and Islamic countries.