March 01, 2008	Saturday	Safar 22, 1429

PESHAWAR, Feb 29: Protests were staged on Friday in Peshawar, Swabi and Mansehra against the republication of blasphemous cartoons by a Denmark newspaper

Students of the University of Peshawar took out a procession from the university campus to the Post Mall chowk while carrying banners and play cards inscribed with slogans against the perpetrators of the cartoons. The protesters asked the government to lodge a formal protest with the Danish embassy in Islamabad.

SWABI: The student federations of Government Post-Graduate College, Swabi jointly staged a protest demonstration against the publication of the blasphemous cartoons. The students also blocked the Swabi-Mardan road and chanted slogans against the Danish government and demanded a prompt action by the Danish government against those indulged in the publication of the sacrilegious cartoons.

The students urged the government to close the Danish embassy in Pakistan and end the diplomatic relations with Demark if its government failed to take action against the people who were involved in the heinous crime.

MANSEHRA: Hundreds of people blocked the Karakuram Highway on Friday in protest against the publication of the sacrilegious sketches of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) and demanded expulsion of the Danish ambassador from the country. The baton wielding protesters burnt the tyers and chanted slogans against the Danish government and president Musharraf.

Separately, people belonging to different walks of life took out a procession in the city where speakers strongly denounced the republication of the blasphemous caricatures in the Danish newspapers and demanded expulsion of the country’s ambassador from the country.