Demonstrators have taken to the streets in cities across Pakistan to protest the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad by the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Most of the protests Friday were peaceful except the one in the southern port city of Karachi, where about 200 demonstrators clashed with police outside the French consulate.

Protesters began throwing stones at police, who tried to push them back with water cannons and tear gas. A photographer with the French new agency AFP was wounded along with three others.

The protesters were mostly students affiliated with the Jamaat-e-Islami political party.

Pakistan’s government has condemned the January 7 attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris that killed 12 people. But many in Pakistan, an overwhelmingly Muslim country, view the magazine’s caricatures of Muhammad as a profound insult to Islam.
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