Tag: Film

Students protest against blasphemous film

Police fired live rounds and tear gas Thursday to break up a crowd of around 1,000 students, many armed with wooden clubs, protesting in...

Anti-Islam film abuse of freedom of expression, says Ban Ki-moon

Secretary General United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-moon has said that anti-Islam filmmaker abused the freedom of expression. Addressing a news conference on Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon...

The film and the protests

There is no doubt that the slanderous movie made by an American is condemnatory. Mobs in streets and roads are chanting slogans while on...

Blasphemous film: PML Ulema Wing demands end to NATO supply

A special meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League Ulema Mashaikh Wing Punjab was held under the president ship of Maulana Allah Yar in the...

PM condemns blasphemous film

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf while strongly condemning the anti-Islam film has called upon the people to register their feelings peacefully and restrain by...

Egypt to try US Copts over anti-Islam film

Egypt’s public prosecutor on Tuesday ordered that seven US-based Egyptian Copts be tried over their role in an anti-Islam film that sparked violent clashes...

Newsweek’s ‘Muslim Rage’ cover sparks wave of scorn

Newsweek’s front page about the deadly protests currently sweeping the Muslim world has sparked a storm of controversy and derision on Twitter as netizens...

Blasphemous film: US should take action against those involved

Pakistan Muslim League President Senator Ch Shujat Hussain has said that the American blasphemous film amounts to showing worst type of disrespect to the...

Fresh protests over anti-Islam film in Pakistan

Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of more than 2,000 protesters trying to reach the US consulate in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday,...

Clashes over anti-Islam film in Indian occupied Kashmir

Hundreds of Muslim protesters in Indian occupied Kashmir clashed with security forces and burnt a police vehicle on Tuesday during angry demonstrations over an...

Shujaat terms anti-Islam film open terrorism

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Tuesday said freedom of expression has no bearing on the sacrilegious movie intended against the Holy...

Youtube blocked across Pakistan after refusal to remove anti-Islam film

Following Youtube management’s refusal to heed to the advice of the Government of Pakistan to remove blasphemous material from its site, Pakistan on Monday...

2 dead as protests over anti-Islam film rage on

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...

Malik writes to Interpol to block sacrilegious film

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has written a letter to Secretary General (SG) Interpol to block the blasphemous film at internet across the globe. In...

US investigating man linked to anti-Islam film

US probation officials are looking into potential violations of prison release terms by a California man linked to an anti-Islam film that triggered violent...

Violence explodes as Muslims protest super blasphemous film

Anti-US protests by crowds whipped into fury by a film that mocks Islam erupted across the Muslim world on Friday, as violence exploded in...

Protests rage across Pakistan against sacrilegious film

Hundreds of people demonstrated across Pakistan on Friday to denounce an anti-Islam movie, with some urging death for the film-maker and others demanding the...