Kabul: Dozens of Afghan women burned Dutch and Danish flags in Kabul today to protest an anti-Islam film and the reprinting of cartoons showing the Prophet Mohammad, a government official said.

The demonstration was the latest in a series of protests in most major towns and cities in Afghanistan in the past weeks to condemn the film by a far-right Dutch politician and the Danish cartoons.

"The demonstrators, which numbered around 50 women, wanted to march towards Dutch and Danish embassies but police stopped them," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.

"Instead they went to the centre of the city and burned the flags of The Netherlands and Denmark. They shouted slogans against those two countries," he said. He could not say which organisation they were from.

Some of the recent wave of demonstrations have seen calls for Kabul to expel Danish and Dutch troops in a 39-nation NATO-led military force that is helping Afghanistan fight an insurgency by the extremist Taliban group.

Source : PTI