Two protesters died on Monday as rallies across the country over an anti-Islam film intensified, with thousands taking to the streets, burning US flags and effigies of President Barack Obama.
About 800 people demonstrated in the northwestern town of Warai, in Upper Dir district, setting fire to a magistrate’s house and the local press club before a protester was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police. Another demonstrator died on Monday afternoon after being shot in the head during clashes with police near the US consulate in Karachi on Sunday, a hospital official said. The protesters set on fire a local press club and office of the Tehsildar. The law enforcement agencies personnel resorted to action when the protesters made an attempt to attack the office of sub-divisional magistrate.
According to details, students from local college and schools on the call of a religious party staged a protest demonstration at Warai Town of Upper Dir. The protesters when reached near local press club made an attempt to force the journalists to cover the rally. The protesters however forcibly entered and set on fire the furniture and other belongings in the press club. Later, the protesters moved towards government offices and set on fire the office of Tehsildar, but they were blocked by contingents of police when they made similar attempt against the office of magistrate. The protesters reportedly pelted stones against the police personnel and the police retaliated by opened firing. The official claimed that the police only went for aerial firing. However, the firing caused the life of one and injured two others.
Later, the protesters were dispersed and the injured were shifted to hospital. District Coordination Officer Mehmood Aslam and District Police Officer Ijaz Abid have ordered inquiry into the incident. Up to 3,000 university students, teachers and employees marched in Peshawar, the main city of the militant-plagued northwest, chanting anti-US slogans and demanding a ban on the “Innocence of Muslims” movie. The low-budget film, thought to have been produced by a small group of Christian rightwing extremists in the United States, has sparked violent anti-American protests across the Islamic world. “One person was killed and two injured during exchange of fire between the police and protesters,” Mohammad Irshad, a senior local government official in Upper Dir, said. Officials baton-charged protesters, who were chanting anti-US slogans, and fired tear gas to try to disperse them, Irshad said. They also fired live rounds into the air, prompting the demonstrators to return fire, he said, although it was unclear who fired the fatal shot. Ihsanullah Khan, police chief for Upper Dir, which is adjacent to a former Taliban stronghold crushed in 2009, said 22 protesters had been arrested and the situation was under control. Hundreds of students protested in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, with caricatures of Obama paced on a donkey as a gesture of humiliation.
At another protest in Peshawar, some 350 activists from Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, a student wing of the hardline Sunni party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), blocked a main road by setting fire to tyres and burning a US flag. In Karachi, up to 100 youths from JI rallied, chanting anti-US slogans and trying to reach the American consulate before being dispersed by police with tear gas.
Ahhh….Islam, the peaceful religion.
to be very honest I have started to wonder if Mohammad was like how that movie portrayed him as his followers seem to be exactly like the barbarians shown in that movie
If your father or mother are abused infront of you for no reason will you stand there and do nothing or will you react accordingly?? If not, then you dont have any feeling for them and if yes then you surely care about them….If for some reason your religion is targetted by other extremist then how will you react???
grow up and stop acting like spoiled brats
I know what you mean, these idiots are living in dark ages and want the whole world to join them in their ignorance. Its like 7th century barbarians with computers and cell phones in their hands and they dont know what to do with themselves
I was expecting this reaction……You will never understand the severity of the current situation…..I hope someday you will realized and will be on the same wavelength….
This must have distracted you all from accusing children of blasphemy or to burn a mentally ill guy for that very reason or to kill ahamdis in your own city, or to force hindu and christians to leave their homes because of your hate crimes..
Mr Islam stop making a fool of your prophet and Muslims in general. you all act like the kind of people that movie shows you to be all like. you all need to learn how to live in current times
Mr. Observer shut your month ……………….
Cut the head of enemy, cut his throat , bombed him , destroy USA ,crush Israel.
These are demands or slogans which we are hearing from so called Islamist groups since the time of Salman Rushdie's popularity .but no non Muslim ever injured on whom actions such messes are created but all above described demands/actions are clearly seen to being applied on Muslims only.
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