By IRNA
Tehran : Scores of Afghani citizens on Saturday staged protests against re-publication of sacrilegious cartoons in the Danish and a film by Dutch press.
Based on the incoming reports, about 15,000 Afghans in the protest demonstration condemned the reprinting of a cartoon of Holy Prophet of Islam Hazrat Mohammad (SAWA) in Danish newspapers and a film on Holy Quran by a Dutch politician.
Protesters set Danish and Dutch flags on fire, while chanting anti-Western slogans due to the reprinting of the cartoon and the planned release of a desecration film by Dutch publication Afghans had gathered in western Herat city and the eastern province of Kunar, on the border with Pakistan.
The marchers demanded the expulsion of Dutch and Danish troops who operate under NATO’s command in the country.
Saturday’s protests were the largest in the past fortnight in Afghanistan.
There were no casualties from the explosion in Herat and both protests ended peacefully.
Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders is expected to release his film later this month.
The cartoon — one of 12 that prompted protests in many Muslim countries in 2006 — was republished by a number of Danish papers last month.