Hundreds of lawyers sympathetic to radical Islamists have attended special prayers for Osama bin Laden and denounced the raid by US special forces that killed the al-Qaida leader.
About 350 protesters gathered outside the provincial high court in Lahore to condemn both the US goverment and the Pakistani leadership.
The al-Qaida leader and at least four others were killed on May 2 by US special forces who raided his compound in Abbottabad, a garrison city not far from the capital, Islamabad.
In Abbottabad, just over a hundred members of the Jamiat Ulema Islam political party rallied in the streets after Friday prayers.
They vowed to start a revolution to avenge what they called the "martyrdom" of bin Laden.
Meanwhile, at least 80 people have been killed in the country following a terrorist attack at a military academy in the town of Charsadda.
The twin bomb attack is the first major incident since Osama bin Laden was killed earlier this month.
Al Qaeda and its Pakistani Taliban allies have vowed to avenge his killing.
Local reports said that the Taliban had claimed responsibility for the attack.
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