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Summary Traffic wardens wear black ribbons on duty to protest against sacrilegious film produced in the US.
Traffic wardens in Lahore are protesting‘peacefully’ against the anti-Islam movie “Innocence of Muslims’’ which sparked furious protests across the Muslim world.The film has triggered protests in at least 20 countries since excerpts were posted online on Youtube.Traffic wardens, wearing black ribbons, have urged the protestors to refrain from vandalizing public property or any other government installations during demonstrations.Around 1,000 students from the Jamaat-e-Islami party took to the streets in Lahore on Wednesday, chanting anti-US slogans and burning the American flag.A similar number demonstrated in Karachi, while in Islamabad around 500 lawyers burst into the capitals diplomatic enclave, chanting anti-American slogans and castigating the government for not taking strong action.The government declared Friday a national holiday in honour of the Prophet Mohammed, in a sudden announcement made after religious parties had called for a day of protest.
