'In a second day of small-scale street protests, more than 100 supporters of various religious groups demonstrated in front of the press club in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. About two dozen followers of a Sunni Muslim group chanted "Hang Salman Rushdie," while Shiite activists torched a British flag and chanted "Down with U.K.!"

In the southern city of Karachi, about two dozen supporters of a religious political party chanted "Death to Salman Rushdie!" and burned an effigy of the author.'