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LAHORE - A 24-year-old man desecrated the Bible at the gates of Saint Anthony's Catholic Church on Lawrence Road on Friday in order to "avenge" extremist US preacher Terry Jones' desecration of the Holy Quran. Police arrested the man and registered a case against him under section 295-A of the PPC.
Police said Akhtar Hussain, a resident of Kasur, had first tried to force entry into the church, whereupon security guards at the gates stopped him and asked for identification.

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran by pastors of a Baptist Church in Gainesville, Florida and said such actions cannot be condoned by any religion.
He said such actions contradict the efforts of the United Nations and many people around the world to promote tolerance, intercultural understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.
Terming this despicable and bigotry act

KABUL - Hundreds of students gathered Tuesday morning in front of the Kabul University and staged a protest against Quran burning in the United States recently.
"Some students decided yesterday to meet Tuesday morning and stage a demonstration to condemn the Quran burning in the U.S. and since the protest began this morning the number of people, most of them students, increased every minute," a student of Kabul University who declined to be named stated.
However, according

JALALABAD - More than 1,000 Afghans took to streets on Monday to protest against the burning of a Quran by an American pastor, pushing angry protests into a fourth day, witnesses said.
Witnesses told AFP by telephone that there were more than 1,000 people, almost all men, protesting in Mehterlam, east of the Afghan capital Kabul.
They shouted "death to America -- long live Islam," one witness said.
"There are demonstrations. It started from Alingar district and now

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on Sunday for the U.S. Congress to condemn the burning of Quran by a radical fundamentalist U.S. pastor and prevent it from happening again, his office said in a statement.
Karzai made the request at a meeting with U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry and General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, the statement said.
Eikenberry read to Karzai from U.S. President Barack Obama's earlier condemnation of

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan on Sunday asked the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to convene a summit on the issue of desecration of Holy Quran and Namoos-e-Risalat in the backdrop of incident of burning a copy of Holy Quran by a US pastor.
Addressing a rally at the Blue Area in Islamabad, the JI chief also urged the government to convene an All Parties Conference on the issue. He condemned in the strongest term the incident of burning

New York - Reposing complete confidence in Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, the OIC decided that the Ambassador of Pakistan along with Ambassadors of Tajiskistan (OIC chair), Morocco (OIC Coordinator for Human Rights), Iran and Egypt would meet with the UN Secretary General to convey OIC's strong condemnation and ask him to take the lead towards promoting inter-faith harmony.
It was decided in OIC Ambassadorial

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD - Expressing anger and resentment over the desecration of holy Quran by US pastors Terry Jones and Wayne Sapp, various student organisations staged protest demonstrations against the act on Friday.
Condemning the incident, activists of Muslim Students Federation (MSF), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, and Mukhtar Organisation, a Shia-backed group, gathered outside the cantonment railway station to register their protest. The rallies were led by KP MSF senior vice

QUETTA - Balochistan Assembly Wednesday adopted a unanimous resolution to condemn the desecration of the Holy Quran by church pastors Wayne Sapp and Terry Jones in the United States. Assembly members expressed their deep concern over the shameful act, adding that it hurt the sentiments of Muslims and called upon federal government to convene a conference of all Islamic countries to evolve a comprehensive strategy against repeated desecration of the Holy Quran and prophets.
Deputy

ISLAMABAD - Bishop Michael of Fatima Jinnah Church, Islamabad said on Thursday that the desecration of the Holy Quran by self-styled evangelical priest Terry Jones not only hurt the feelings of Muslims, but of Christians as well. The bishop told a press conference here at the National Press Club that Christian teachings strongly condemned desecration of God's scriptures.
He claimed that before the inception of Pakistan and in the early days, Muslims and Christians lived together

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Thursday asked the government to convene emergency meetings of the UN and foreign ministers of the entire Muslim world to record protest at the international level against the desecration of the Holy Quran by an American pastor. Speaking at a news conference here, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch termed the desecration of the Holy Quran by the pastor as 'ideological terrorism' of the US and the West which, he said, was condemnable in the strongest

LAHORE - Minorities Wing of the Pakistan People's Party staged a demonstration on Thursday outside the Lahore Press Club against pastors Terry Jones and Wayne Sapp, who desecrated the Holy Quran in Florida. Addressing the protesters, Christian leaders including central PPP leader Napolean Qayyum denounced the unfortunate incident in the strongest terms and urged the US government and the United Nations to take stern action against the two pastors for hurting the sentiments of people

LAHORE - Different Christian institutes of Lahore under the auspices of National Council for Interfaith Dialogue, URI Pakistan and Justice Peace Commission on Thursday condemned the desecration of the Quran by an American Pastor Terry Jones. Pakistan Massihah Party also held a protest in this connection in front of the Lahore Press Club.
Christian community leaders, Fr Francis Nadeem, Fr Abid Habib, Fr James Channan (OP) and Fr Samson Dilawar held that Jones was not a Christian