Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology (IT) has blocked video sharing website Youtube after receiving orders from Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. Pakistani PM Raja's office said in a statement that the Ministry of Information had been ordered to block YouTube so that the "blasphemous" video could not be viewed.
Fresh protests are taking place around the Muslim world over an amateur anti-Islam video produced in the US. Protests were held on Monday in Pakistan, where two people were killed, as well as in Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, Yemen and Lebanon.
A protesting rally organized by Islami Jamiat e Tulba was shelled by the the police to disperse the protestors heading towards the US Consulate in Karachi. The largely peaceful crowd waved the yellow flag of Hezbollah and carried posters that read, "No to the insulting of the prophet."
Most of the men tied headbands around their foreheads in green and yellow. More than a dozen people have died since last Tuesday in protests sparked by the appearance on Youtube of a trailer for the obscure, poorly made film, which is entitled Innocence of Muslims.
Earlier in the day in Afghanistan, hundreds of demonstrators attacked police officers along a road leading to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Monday's address was only Nasrallah's fifth public appearance in six years, and the first time he made a full speech in person to thousands of his supporters since 2008.
He called for protests on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, urging protesters to call on their leaders to express their anger too. Since last Tuesday, protests have spread to more than 20 nations, and the United States has increased security at its embassies and consulates worldwide.
About 3,000 protesters from the Philippines Muslim minority burned US and Israeli flags in the southern city of Marawi. And in Indonesia, protesters threw rocks and used slingshots to launch marbles at riot police outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. Police responded with tear gas.
Fresh protests are taking place around the Muslim world over an amateur anti-Islam video produced in the US. Protests were held on Monday in Pakistan, where two people were killed, as well as in Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, Yemen and Lebanon.
A protesting rally organized by Islami Jamiat e Tulba was shelled by the the police to disperse the protestors heading towards the US Consulate in Karachi. The largely peaceful crowd waved the yellow flag of Hezbollah and carried posters that read, "No to the insulting of the prophet."
Most of the men tied headbands around their foreheads in green and yellow. More than a dozen people have died since last Tuesday in protests sparked by the appearance on Youtube of a trailer for the obscure, poorly made film, which is entitled Innocence of Muslims.
Earlier in the day in Afghanistan, hundreds of demonstrators attacked police officers along a road leading to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Monday's address was only Nasrallah's fifth public appearance in six years, and the first time he made a full speech in person to thousands of his supporters since 2008.
He called for protests on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, urging protesters to call on their leaders to express their anger too. Since last Tuesday, protests have spread to more than 20 nations, and the United States has increased security at its embassies and consulates worldwide.
About 3,000 protesters from the Philippines Muslim minority burned US and Israeli flags in the southern city of Marawi. And in Indonesia, protesters threw rocks and used slingshots to launch marbles at riot police outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. Police responded with tear gas.
