Pakistan - At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 wounded during the the love of Prophet Muhammad Day.

Pakistan Update: At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 wounded during the the love of Prophet Muhammad Day.(ET).Including 10 in Karachi and five in Peshawar, hospital officials told AFP. The combined total of wounded in Karachi, Peshawar and in the capital Islamabad has reached 219. A doctor at Karachi’s Jinnah hospital told AFP they had received five dead and 65 people with injuries, while the city’s Civil hospital said it had also had five bodies, including that of a police officer, and at least 40 injured. Hospital doctors in Peshawar gave a combined total of 79 people wounded. In Islamabad, a doctor at the Services Hospital said 35 people were brought in with injuries, including eight policemen and four civilians with gunshot wounds.
9:29pm A total of five cinemas have been gutted down in Karachi, including Nishat, Capri and Bambino in Saddar and Gulistan and Nargas in Quaidabad. 9:08pm Protesters torch a church in the Mardan town of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. 8:59pm Talking to the media in Islamabad, Interior Minister Rehman Malik expressed regret over the suspension of mobile phone services in Pakistan, reported Radio Pakistan.The US Chargé D’Affaires Ambassador Richard Hoagland was summoned by the Foreign Ministry and a strong protest was lodged with him over the blasphemous video. He was told that the US government should immediately take measures to remove the sacrilegious video from YouTube and take action against its maker. Ambassador Hoagland reiterated his government’s position as well that of the US leadership that they strongly condemned the video. He stated that a vast majority of the American people have also condemned it.Read the full story here.