Pakistan summoned a Swedish diplomat in Islamabad on Thursday to protest a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Swedish newspaper, Sweden's Foreign Ministry said. The charge d'affaires at the Swedish Embassy, Lennart Holst, was summoned to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry over the drawing in the Nerikes Allehanda paper, ministry spokesman Claes Jernaeus said. «They presented a verbal protest to the Swedish government over what they said was an insult to the Prophet Muhammad,» Jernaeus said. «Holst said that the (Swedish) government cannot interfere with media freedom.» The newspaper on Aug. 19 published one of a series of controversial drawings by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, depicting Muhammad's head on a dog's body. At least two Swedish art galleries have refused to exhibit Vilks' drawings.
