Thousands rally in Pakistan’s Karachi against French magazine caricatures

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime.

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had published controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammad after members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) killed 12 people in an attack on its office in Paris earlier this month,     reports Xinhua.

Jamaat-e-Islami party staged the demonstration which the organizers said was the biggest so far held in Pakistan against the blasphemous cartoons.