July 07, 2023 09:15 pm | Updated 09:15 pm IST - IslamabadThousands of people rallied in streets across Pakistan Friday to condemn a Koran burning in Sweden that has outraged Muslims around the world. Earlier this week Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for countrywide protests against the burning, declaring Friday "a day to uphold the Koran's sanctity". About 5,000 more TLP members rallied in one of at least a dozen protests held in the second-largest city of Lahore. "We cannot allow anyone to desecrate our holy book Koran under the guise of the law of freedom of expression," he said. Stockholm has condemned last week's Koran burning as "Islamophobic", but added that Sweden had a "constitutionally protected right to freedom of assembly, expression and demonstration".

Source: The Hindu July 08, 2023 00:15 UTC