
The Beijing Olympic flame is being carried to the Sports Complex of Islamabad shortly before the start of the torch relay in Pakistan on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Pakistan is the 10th stop on the Olympic flame's global tour.

Jiang Xiaoyu (front R), vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of Olympic Games, presents the torch to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (front L) and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani (C) at the lighting ceremony of the Olympic torch relay at the Pakistan Sports Complex in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on April 16, 2008. Islamabad is the tenth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (C) and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani (front R) present the torch to the first torchbearer Samiullah Khan at the Pakistan Sports Complex in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on April 16, 2008. Islamabad is the tenth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland.

Pakistani students welcome the Beijing Olympic torch relay in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.


