Thousands of Pakistanis protest against anti-Islam film, cartoons

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KARACHI (AFP) — Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi to protest against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and a Dutch film said to insult Islam, police and witnesses said.

"More than 20,000 protesters attended the rally convened by the fundamentalist Jamaat-i-Islami party," a senior police officer Suleman Syed told AFP.

Party leader Munawar Hussain said tens of thousands participated Sunday to vent their anger against the Internet release of a 15-minute film last month by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders.

Emotionally charged youths torched Danish and Dutch flags and also chanted slogans against the United States and burned an effigy of US president George W. Bush, witnesses said.

In a resolution the rally urged the...