ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of hard-line Islamists angered over a far-right Dutch lawmaker's plans to hold a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest marched toward Pakistan's capital Thursday after police ...

Police fired tear gas and wielded batons on Monday to stop about 7,000 students protesting the publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in northwestern Pakistan from marching on the governor's ...

Pakistan’s senate has passed a resolution condemning an anti-Islam cartoon contest planned by a far-right Dutch lawmaker, in one of the first actions taken by the assembly since last month’s elections ...

Police have detained 125 people protesting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in eastern Pakistan and arrested a radical Muslim leader to prevent more violence, said officials. About 300 police rounded ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s government blocked access to social networking service Twitter for most of Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting what it described as a blasphemous ...

Four people have been injured in Pakistan when police opened fire during protests against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad, police say. The incident happened in Chaniot town in Punjab province ...

NEW DELHI, March 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan has said it will seek the help of U.S. President George W. Bush on the cartoon controversy. The Hindu newspaper said Thursday that Pakistani President Gen Pervez ...

An Opposition lawmaker in Pakistan has called for a ban on all 24-hour cartoon TV channels, and specifically the popular Japanese series “Doraemon”, claiming that it could have a negative influence on ...

Pakistani security guards have shot dead two protesters in Lahore during unrest over Western newspaper cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. The shots were fired by guards at a bank as crowds ...

Gunfire and rioting erupted Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan’s third straight day of violent protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Three people were ...