MULTAN, May 28th: Islamists organisations including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUP), Jamaat Islami (JI) on Friday observed the "Protest Day" and staged demonstrations and rallies in Multan and other parts of Southern Punjab against the blasphemous sketches of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They burnt an effigy of the cartoonist and Flags of US, Israel, Denmark and Sweden besides burning tyres to block the traffic. The rally was led by Mufti Hidayatullah Pasroori Provincial Chief of JUP,Allama Taqi Naqvi, A shia scholar, Allama Khalid Mehmood (JAH) Ahmed Mian, Hafiz Muzaffar Qureshi, Arshad Iqbal Niazi ,Prof.Akhtar, Soofi Muhammad Ramzan and Faqir Noorani. They appealed to the people not to purchase the products of such countries which were promoting the sacriligious matter in the name of freedom of expression.More than 200 students of religious institutions and a number of clerics of different sects attended the rally.Similarly Local traders and civil society members also staged a demonstration against the sacriligious cartoons/ sketches and said that no one had a right to hurt the religious sentiments of others.Sunni Tehrik also staged a demonstration to condemn the competition of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on Face book.The speakers strongly condemned the blasphemous sketches, and said it was a conspiracy to ruin the soft image of Muslims and project them as religious extremists.They claimed that international powers do not want peace in Pakistan, and stressed the need of unity amongst religious leaders to counter the conspiracy against Muslims.