Cartoon protesters storm diplomatic enclave in Pakistan

More than 1,000 protesters stormed into a diplomatic enclave in Islamabad today, and thousands set fire to a provincial assembly building in another city during Pakistan’s most violent wave of protests against the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Police fired into the air as they tried to disperse a rampaging crowd in the eastern city of Lahore. The protesters smashed windows and torched the sprawling provincial assembly building, witnesses said.