Eight people have been killed in northwestern Pakistan during protests against plans to rename the country's North West Frontier Province, witnesses reported. The protests erupted on Monday and continued for a second day on Tuesday, as scores of people took to the streets of the city of Abbottabad. The demonstrators were protesting against a parliamentary proposalto change the name of the North West Frontier Province, or NWFP, to Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa.
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