Cartoons: 25 000 protest
26/02/2006 17:15  - (SA)  

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Lahore - About 25 000 people rallied peacefully in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi on Sunday against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

This while police prevented an illegal rally in the eastern city of Lahore by arresting the religious ringleader and detaining scores of other would-be protesters.

In Karachi, where the provincial government has not banned such rallies, protesters chanted "Down with the blasphemer," "Death to America," and "End diplomatic ties with European countries," an Associated Press reporter saw.

About 25 000 people joined the rally in downtown Karachi organised by Tahafuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat, a Sunni Muslim religious group, said Shaukat Shah, a Karachi police officer.

- AP

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