Pakistan sees violent backlash over Charlie Hebdo

ISLAMABAD -- Protests across Pakistan on Friday over French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's cover image of the Prophet Muhammad prompted the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to order tighter security around French diplomatic missions.

Asif Hasan, a photographer for the French news agency AFP was seriously wounded when he was hit by shots fired during a protest of a couple hundred people near the French consulate in the southern port city of Karachi. Hasan underwent surgery and was reportedly recovering in hospital.

A Pakistani intelligence official told CBS News Hasan was wounded by rounds fired by a protester.

Sharif's government ordered the deployment of additional troops around the French Embassy in Islamabad and other French missions in the country, a senior government official said.

"We expect these protests to continue for a few days. They may become ugly. No one is willing to take chances with the security of French missions in Pakistan," said the official, who spoke to CBS News on the condition of anonymity.

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In Islamabad, almost 300 people gathered outside a mosque to hear a prominent leader of the hardline Islamic group Jamaat-ud-Dawa condemn the caricature of the prophet.

"If this event of cartoons insulting our prophet is repeated, then holy warriors will continue to break necks and hands in a similar manner," Abdul Rehman Maki said in his emotionally charged speech. "We say with full responsibility, whosoever breaks the hand of those who commit blasphemy, and breaks their neck, we will hold that person in praise and the lord of the universe will grant them a place in heaven."

Some speakers at the rally called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government to immediately cut ties with the West and withdraw the country's ambassadors from Western capitals.

Western officials and analysts in Pakistan said that although the protesters may represent a minority view across the south Asian country, they still pose a significant security risk.

One senior Western diplomat who closely followed Friday's protests told CBS News the demonstrators "are not a majority, but they have the capacity to disrupt this country. That's why Pakistan's leaders need to closely monitor this situation."

The anti-Charlie Hebdo rally came on the same day that Pakistani civil society protesters gathered in different locations to mark the passing of exactly a month since a Taliban attack on a school in the northern city of Peshawar left 150 people dead, most of them students.

That attack appears to have prompted Pakistan security forces to intensify their ongoing campaign against the Taliban in a rugged swathe of land along the country's border with Afghanistan.

Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Pakistani analyst, told CBS News "the protests (against Charlie Hebdo) also highlight the degree to which there are divisions within our country." He said the country's leaders must focus on "how we can unite Pakistan."

Meanwhile, in neighboring Afghanistan, CBS News' Ahmad Mukhtar said there were no demonstrations in Kabul but several Islamic leaders did come out to strongly condemn the Charlie Hebdo cartoon, and praised the attackers.

One leader told people during Friday prayers "whoever insults our Prophet Muhammad, we cannot tolerate, (we must) stand against them, and declare jihad against those people."

Another, in eastern Kabul, called on people to stand against "infidels" and defend the prophet. He praised the Charlie Hebdo attackers, calling them Mujahideen, or holy warriors.