Pakistanis continue to protest over blasphemous caricatures

Supporters of a religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa take part in a rally against caricatures published in French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. Photo: AP

Different Pakistani political, religious and social organizations continue to protest against what they call blasphemous caricatures in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The biggest protest took place Sunday in the eastern city of Lahore, where over 10,000 supporters of the hard-line Jamaat-ud-Dawa organization chanted “Down with Charlie Hebdo” and “Death to blasphemers.”

In Karachi, the main Jamaat-e-Islami party and cricket star turned politician Imran Khan’s Tehrik-e-Insaf party held protest rallies attended by hundreds.

In the north-western city of Peshawar, dozens of Christian protesters held their own anti-Charlie Hebdo protest burning the French flag and demanding the magazine be banned.