
Flame guards escort the torch and a lantern which holds the Olympic flame to the venue of 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. [Xinhua]

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. [Xinhua]

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (front L) and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani (front R) hold the torch at the lighting ceremony of the Olympic torch relay at the Pakistan Sports Complex in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on April 16, 2008. [Xinhua]

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. [Xinhua]

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (2nd L onstage) and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani (4th L onstage) hold the torch at the lighting ceremony of the Olympic torch relay at the Pakistan Sports Complex in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on April 16, 2008. [Xinhua]