More than 1,000 Afghans held a peaceful protest on Sunday to demand the prosecution of people responsible for publishing cartoons depicting caricatures of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The protesters marched through the streets of Mehtarlam, the capital of the eastern province of Laghman, and also called for the banning of publications that printed the cartoons, the province's governor said. "More than 1,000 people took part in the protest. They want those who published these cartoons to be tried," Laghman governor Shah Mahmood Safi told Reuters by telephone. The cartoons were first published in a Danish newspaper in September. Other European newspapers reprinted them this week.