Protests against blasphemous caricatures
Bureau Report

LAHORE—Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) on Friday staged demonstration to express their protest against the publication of blasphemous caricatures in Danish newspapers.
The activists of IJT while demonstrating outside Masjid-e-Shuhada here this afternoon, chanted slogans against the newspapers involved in such acts. At two similar demonstration in Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi, about 150 supporters from radical Islamic parties torched effigies of the Danish prime minister. “We demand the rulers to sever diplomatic ties” with Denmark, said Mohammad Imran, a student leader from Islami Jamiat Talba, a student organization linked with Pakistan’s largest Islamic political group, Jamaat-e-Islami. “The cartoonist and publisher must be hanged,” he said.