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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (6014)	2/20/2006 8:28:13 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

Church set ablaze in Pakistan, no casualties-police 19 Feb 2006 17:24:26 GMT Source: Reuters HYDERABAD, Pakistan, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of angry Muslims set a church on fire in southern Pakistan on Sunday during a protest over the burning of pages from the Muslim holy book the Koran, but no casualties were reported, police said. They said that around 400 people also attacked and damaged a school run by a local convent in the city of Sukkur in the southern Sindh province, some 480 km (300 miles) north of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city. "Some pages of the Koran were burnt by a man named Arif, who had converted to Islam from Christianity a few years back," local police chief Akbar Arain told Reuters, adding the police had already arrested the accused after registering a case. "The issue seemed resolved, but some groups of angry youth first came to the police station demanding the custody of Irfan and later attacked and burnt a church," he told Reuters. Some of the protestors were arrested but Arain did not say how many. The incident came amid angry protests across Pakistan against Danish cartoons published in some European newspapers lampooning the Prophet Mohammad. At least five people were killed during protests which turned violent over the past week. Christians make up less than 10 percent of Pakistan's mostly Muslim population of close to 160 million.