Condemnation: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday said that Jones "should not even think" of burning the holy Quran."By burning the Quran they cannot harm it. The Quran is in the hearts and minds of one and a half billion people. (But) insulting the Quran is an insult to nations," Karzai said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded the episode a "Zionist plot" that would end up in the speedy "annihilation" of Israel, while Ismail Haniya, a top leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, called Jones an "insane lunatic".
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono lashed out anew against Jones a day after calling on US President Barack Obama to intervene.
Afghan protest: Thousands of people took to the streets across Afghanistan on Friday, some threatening to attack US bases.
One protester was shot dead and several were wounded outside a German-run NATO base in northeast Afghanistan and NATO said it was investigating. Demonstrations later spread to the capital, Kabul, and at least four other provinces.
A crowd, estimated at 10,000 by a government official, poured out of mosques into the streets of Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan in Afghanistan's northeast, after Eid prayers. One protester was shot dead when the people tried to enter the NATO base in Faizabad.
In Multan, hundreds of protesters took to the streets and burned US flags. agencies