Police use tear gas on protest against cartoons

POLICE fired tear gas and wielded batons yesterday to stop 7,000 students protesting cartoons of the prophet Mohammed from marching on the governor’s residence in north-western Pakistan.

The students had hurled stones at a Christian school, breaking windows. They also threw stones at shops, chanting “Down with America” and “Down with Denmark”.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told journalists in Islamabad yesterday that newspapers that have printed the caricatures were “being totally oblivious to the consequences for the world, for world peace and harmony”.