he first clue that the film had touched a raw nerve with Muslims all over the world, was when the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed on 11 September along with three of his colleagues.

6. 33 pm: The army has been called in at Pakistan when a US diplomatic enclave in Rawalpindi was breached over protests against a purportedly anti-Islam film, Dawn news reported. The protest went out of hand, and the police was called in at first. The protest rippled across to Islamabad where another US diplomatic enclave was attacked, according to the Dawn News report. The army and police attacked protesters with tear gas shells. Ambulances were brought in to take the injured to the hospital.

The police said that the Pakistani police engaged the gunmen who wreaked havoc at Islamabad by firing at them.

At the last update all Indian diplomats were deemed safe, within the embassies.

6.00 pm: India finally blocked the YouTube link to the anti-Islam film Inncoence of Muslims that has led to the deaths of at least 28 people around the world. The first clue that the film had touched a raw nerve with Muslims all over the world, was when the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed on 11 September along with three of his colleagues.

*Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion's prophet are clashing with police in the Pakistani capital.

Islamabad police official Mohammed Iqbal says the crowd numbers more than 1,000 people and most of them are students.

Television footage of the demonstrations Thursday showed police using tear gas and batons to try to keep demonstrators away from a restricted enclave that houses government offices and embassies.

* News hits that an ad equating Islamic jihad with savagery was due to appear next week in 10 New York City subway stations despite transit officials' efforts to block it.

* The city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority had refused the ads, citing a policy against demeaning language. The American Freedom Defense Initiative, which is behind the ad campaign, then sued and won a favorable ruling from a US judge in Manhattan.

* An actress in the anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world sued a California man linked to its production on Wednesday for fraud and slander, saying she had received death threats after the video was posted on YouTube.

* Actress Cindy Lee Garcia, who also named Google Inc and its YouTube unit as defendants, asked that the film be removed from YouTube and said her right to privacy had been violated and her life endangered, among other allegations.

A short timeline of how events have unfolded in the aftermath of the film:

19 September:

* A leading international Islamic organisation called the Organisation of Islamic Corporation signalled that it would revive long-standing attempts to make insults against religions an international criminal offence.

* Several hundred lawyers protesting an anti-Islam video forced their way into an area in Pakistan's capital that houses the US Embassy and other foreign missions on Wednesday, and the United States temporarily closed its consulate in an Indonesian city because of similar demonstrations.

* France's prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said a planned demonstration by people angry over a film produced in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad Innocence of Muslims won't be allowed to go ahead.

18 September:

* Saudi Arabia threatened to block all access to YouTube inside the kingdom unless the site cuts local access to a film which mocks the Prophet Mohammad, state news agency SPA reported late on Tuesday.

18 September:

* A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least nine people in an attack that a militant group said was revenge for the film.

* The government in Bangladesh blocked YouTube to prevent people from seeing the anti-Islam video.

* The US refused to immediately describe the attack on its consulate in Benghazi on 11 September as an act of terror, saying that it will wait for the probe to be over before reaching to any conclusion.

* The US consulate in Chennai was closed for three days starting Monday following the protests outside its premises on the US-made anti-Islam film, it was announced.

* Diplomats at the US Embassy in Beirut started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.

* Family members of a California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, linked to the anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world went into hiding on Monday, with sheriff's deputies escorting them from their home to an undisclosed location, authorities said.

17 September:

* Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf ordered the suspension of YouTube in the country over a video made in the United States which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and has enraged the Islamic world.

* A witness told authorities in Libya that US ambassador Chris Stevens was still breathing as people pulled him from a room where he was found after the attack on the American Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

* Pakistan blocked over 700 links to the anti-Islam film.

* One person was killed in violent protests in northwest Pakistan even as the Supreme Court directed authorities to block access to contents from the movie on YouTube and other websites.

* Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the West on Monday to show it respects Muslims by blocking the film.

* Hundreds of protesters demonstrated against the film and torched a press club and a government building in northwest Pakistan on Monday, sparking clashes with police that left at least one person dead. Rioting demonstrators battled with police outside a US military base in Afghanistan and the US Embassy in Indonesia.

* Iran's government said it would "track down" those responsible for making the amateurish film clip.

* At least 40 policemen were injured when a protest turned violent, leading to clashes between police and protestors in the Afghan capital Kabul, police said. Hundreds of people burnt cars and threw rocks at a military camp on the outskirts of the Afghan capital.

* Faced with protests for the third day, the US consulate in Chennai shut down its visa section for two days.

* A deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya was a spontaneous reaction to the anti-Muslim video, the US ambassador to the United Nations said, even as Libya's president insisted the attackers spent months preparing and carefully choosing their date — the anniversary of the 11 September terrorist attacks.

16 September:

* Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina condemned the film and asked the US to punish its maker.

* Sam Bacile, the southern California filmmaker linked to the movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff's station but was not arrested or detained.

* al-Qaeda's most active branch in the Middle East called for more attacks on US embassies to "set the fires blazing," seeking to co-opt outrage over an anti-Muslim film even as the wave of protests that swept 20 countries this week eased.

* The United States ordered non-essential staff to leave its embassies in Tunisia and Sudan on Saturday after both diplomatic posts were attacked and Khartoum rejected a US request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at its mission there.

* Saudi Arabia's highest spiritual leader has called on the Muslims to denounce violence in protest of an anti-Islam video made in the US. "If Muslims surrender to anger, they will achieve the objectives of those who are behind the production of this offensive movie," Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh said in a statement Saturday.

15 September:

* A Muslim organisation protested against a controversial American movie, deemed offensive to Islam, and made a futile bid to picket the US Consulate here.

* Google rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online the controversial YouTube movie clip.

* Hundreds of Afghans — some shouting "Death to America" — held a protest in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

14 September:

* About 200 Indonesians showed their anger over an anti-Islam film Friday by chanting "death to Jews!" and "death to America!" in a largely peaceful protest outside the heavily guarded US Embassy.

* One of the actresses in the film that has caused anti-US protests across the Arab world and led to the death of a US ambassador in Libya, charged the producer/director of the film, Sam Bacile, of misleading her about its content.

* Jammu and Kashmir Government asked the Centre to block the anti-Islam video on social networking sites as it could trigger law and order problem in the state.

13 September:

* Demonstrators attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest, and American warships headed to Libya after the US ambassador there died in related violence earlier this week.

11 September:

* President Barack Obama branded the attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans earlier in the day as "outrageous" and vowed to track down the perpetrators, while ordering a tightening of diplomatic security worldwide.