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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.
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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
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)
Karachi
Peshawar
Quetta
Heaviest protests centered around Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Lahore—the only cities containing U.S. diplomatic missions
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
Lahore
Protests following anti-Islam film across Pakistan
Islamabad
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
Heaviest day of protests, Friday September 21, 2012
Heaviest protests centered around Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Lahore—the only cities containing U.S. diplomatic missions
Karachi
Lahore
Peshawar
Quetta
Islamabad
Violent protests
Karachi
Lahore
Peshawar
Quetta
Islamabad
Period covered: September 14, 2012 (first protest marches) – September 21, 2012 (government-declared holiday in support of protests and day of heaviest protesting)
Protestors attempt to storm U.S. consulate, burn buildings, exchange fire with police. 17 killed, 100+ injured in Karachi by September 21.
Protestors clash with police, attempt to storm U.S. embassy in Islamabad.
Protestors burn cinemas, chamber of commerce, clash with police. 6 killed, 65 injured in Peshawar.
Mob burns church in Mardan.
Mob torches cinema in Quetta.
Hospital, bank vandalized in Hangu
Journalists, locals refusing to protest attacked by mobs in Hyderabad.
Protestors make push towards U.S. consulate; torch bank in Lahore.
Heaviest protest activity centered around U.S. consulate, main approaches and nearby neighborhoods
U.S. Consulate-General, Karachi
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)
