Thousands of people have marched through the streets of the Afghan cities of Kandahar and Jalalabad in new protests in response to the burning of Holy Quran in the US last month. This incident took place in Florida on 20 March under the supervision of Pastor Terry Jones. Muslims through all over the world are already protesting against all this happening. Non Muslims are continuously doing these type of things firstly they organize burn Quran day which was not supported by the US President and now this thing happened , people in Pakistan said if anything again happen in the future then they will set churches and the holy places of Non Muslims on fire.
These protests comes after 14 people which includes seven UN staff who were killed in violence after similar protests on Friday. On the other hand US President Barack Obama described the killings as "outrageous" and the burning of Holy Quran as "intolerance and bigotry". These protests are getting prolong and ten more people died in the same kind of protests in Kandahar on Saturday where dozens more were injured. Today in Kandahar people marched to the main UN office and some also reports were given for the smaller protests in two other districts of Kandahar province. The authorities of Afghanistan have blamed the Taliban for the violence whereas Taliban has rejected the accusation.
Now the protests have spread to the eastern city of Jalalabad where today many people have peacefully blocked a main road.According to an Associated Press photographer at the scene the crowd were shouting on US troops and saying them to leave Afghanistan and they also burnt an effigy of Mr Obama. On the other hand the US President showed his condolences to the families of those who were killed by the protesters in Afghanistan.
