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Friday, September 21, 2012

Pakistan, 19 dead in protests against the film

At least nineteen dead and eighty people were injured in clashes in the five largest cities in Pakistan, where 50 thousand people took to the streets to protest against the film and the cartoons of Muhammad in Islamic day of prayer. The most serious clashes have occurred in Karachi, the largest city located in the south of the country, the other four were recorded in Peshawar in the north-west. The Pakistani government had called for restraint in protests, while proclaiming the Friday prayer as a "day of love for the prophet," whose purpose was to demonstrate peacefully against the spread on the internet film that pokes fun at Muhammad. A Karachi police shot and used tear gas to repel the attacks of extremists to banks , cinema, shops and restaurants.The government has broken cover for mobile phones in 15 cities and has developed extensive security measures around all the representatives of Western countries. Shots rang out in the capital Serena Hotel, frequented by Westerners, as a crowd of 8 thousand people approached the barrier of security around the embassy district and threw stones.Clashes in Rawalpindi and Lahore, where the crowd pelted with stones, police cars and set fire to a checkpoint. anti-American protests in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, where they were burned U.S. flags and portraits of President Barack Obama. Extraordinary security measures in Tunisia: Tunis the capital have been banned gatherings and patrolled the Western embassies and the synagogue.

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