The call for more rallies against the Prophet Muhammad cartoons by the Islamic party alliance known as the MMA on drew crowds in the hundreds on Friday.

From the BBC story:

Protest meetings were held in several cities, but were much smaller than those witnessed earlier in the month.

Senior MMA leaders said their campaign would continue - but with paramilitary troops assisting riot police in most cities, the rallies remained peaceful.

Five people have died in Pakistan's cartoon protests in the past two weeks.

The biggest protest rallies were expected to be in Lahore and Islamabad, where two of the MMA's most senior leaders were to address the gatherings.

But neither of the two meetings attracted more than a few hundred supporters of the Islamic groups.