Protests and violence have erupted across the Muslim world following the release on YouTube of “Innocence of Muslims,” a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. Nowhere has the violence been as intense as in Pakistan, where demonstrations and riots have claimed over 20 lives since street agitation first began on Friday, September 14.
See http://www.criticalthreats.org/pakistan/jan-violence-mapping-protests-following-anti-islam-film-september-25-2012 for analysis.
Violence in Pakistan: Mapping the Protests Following the Anti-Islam Film
1. Protests in Pakistan
Examining the spread of protests and violence in
Pakistan following the recent anti-Islam film
Prepared by Reza Nasim Jan
Critical Threats Project Analyst
Pakistan Team Lead
September 25, 2012
Kimberley Hoffman contributed research to this slide deck
2. Protests following anti-Islam film across Pakistan
Period covered: September 14, 2012 (first protest marches) – September 21, 2012 (government-declared holiday in support of protests and day of heaviest protesting)
3. Protests following anti-Islam film across Pakistan
Period covered: September 14, 2012 (first protest marches) – September 21, 2012 (government-declared holiday in support of protests and day of heaviest protesting)
Heavy protest activity in
Pakistani-administered Kashmir,
an area with traditionally heavy
influence of conservative Islam
and militant Islamist groups
Peshawar
Islamabad
Heaviest protests centered around Karachi,
Islamabad, Peshawar and Lahore—the only Lahore
cities containing U.S. diplomatic missions
Quetta
Protests with involvement of known militant
Islamist groups or personalities including as
Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-
Sahaba Pakistan, Difaa-e-Pakistan Council
Karachi
4. Heaviest day of protests, Friday September 21, 2012
Peshawar
Islamabad
Heaviest protests centered around Karachi,
Islamabad, Peshawar and Lahore—the only cities Lahore
containing U.S. diplomatic missions
Quetta
Karachi
5. Violent protests
Period covered: September 14, 2012 (first protest marches) – September 21, 2012 (government-declared holiday in support of protests and day of heaviest protesting)
Protestors burn cinemas, chamber of commerce, Mob burns church in Mardan.
clash with police. 6 killed, 65 injured in Peshawar.
Peshawar Protestors clash with police,
attempt to storm U.S.
Hospital, bank vandalized in Hangu embassy in Islamabad.
Islamabad
Lahore
Mob torches cinema in Quetta.
Quetta Protestors make push towards U.S.
consulate; torch bank in Lahore.
Journalists, locals refusing to protest
attacked by mobs in Hyderabad.
Protestors attempt to storm U.S. consulate, burn
Karachi
buildings, exchange fire with police. 17 killed,
100+ injured in Karachi by September 21.
6. Karachi: Experiencing the most violence
Period covered: September 14, 2012 (first protest marches) – September 21, 2012 (government-declared holiday in support of protests and day of heaviest protesting)
Heaviest protest activity centered around U.S. consulate,
main approaches and nearby neighborhoods
U.S. Consulate-General, Karachi