Protesters Rampage in Pakistan

Thousands of protesters ransacked Lahore and Islamabad, two cities in Pakistan, in one of the most violent quarrel against Muhammad's caricatures, published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands- Posten last September.

The angry mob burned a hotel, a KFC, an inn and several more western businesses. At least two people were killed in Lahore, the officials suspecting that Islamic militant groups incited the violent groups. There were reports of people directing the angry protesters to specific targets.
In Islamabad, students invaded the building that houses many foreign embassies, carrying sticks and throwing stones.

The police used tear gas to drive the protesters away, after vandalizing cars, smashing windows and shouting slogans
against Denmark.

The main cause for the violence is a caricature of Muhammad appeared in a Danish newspaper and transmitted by other Western newspapers portraying the leader wearing a turban in the form of a bomb with an ignited detonator string. The Muslim reject any representation of their prophet, considering it outrageous, and slammed the motivation that the drawings have news value and that they represent freedom of speech.

In the southern part of Iraq, the withdrawal of Denmark's military contingency was demanded if the Danish government does not apologize for the blasphemous representations, a thing which the officials refuse to do on the basis that they have no influence over the media. Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, expressed his resentment towards the cartoons and held a number of peaceful protests.