Rewards offered to kill cartoonists
`A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers have offered rewards amounting to over million (.35 million) for anyone who kills Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide.
Maulana Yousef Qureshi, a cleric in the north-western city of Peshawar, said during Friday prayers he has personally offered to pay a bounty of 500,000 rupees (,377), and two of his congregation put up additional rewards of million (.35 million) and one million rupees plus a car.
Qureshi repeated the offer at rally later in the city to protest against the cartoons.’
