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25 injured in Islamabad protests over
anti-Islam film
Thursday September 20, 2012 08:00:04 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: At least 25
people, including 15 policemen, were injured in the Pakistani
capital and the army had to be called in to contain a massive
protest being staged against a controversial anti-Islam US film
Thursday, Xinhua reported.
According to Geo News, the Pakistan Army was summoned to protect
the red zone and diplomatic enclave in Islamabad from
demonstrators. Islamabad's diplomatic enclave is home to most
Western embassies, including the US, British and French missions.
Clashes broke out when thousands of university and college
students from the neighbouring Rawalpindi city tried to force into
the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad to register their protest at
the US embassy over US film "Innocence of Muslims", reported Samma
TV.
Hundreds of heavily armed policemen tried to disperse the
protesting mobs with tear smoke but protesting students retaliated
with stone-pelting at the police, smashing police vehicles and
torching police checkposts.
At least two police checkposts were torched and an unknown number
of police vehicles were damaged in the clashes.
When students could not enter the diplomatic enclave, some of them
started turning to other places near the diplomatic enclave. Large
number of protestors were seen near parliament and a five-star
hotel frequented by Westerners.
As protests went on, many other people, including traders and
religious people, joined in. The number of the protestors soon
swelled to over 10,000, media reports said.
Fearing the situation would spin out of control, the interior
ministry reportedly called in the army to maintain order and law
in the city.
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