In the wake of the anti-U.S. protests in Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Koran by U.S. troops at an air base near Kabul, Afghanistan in February 2012, the Pashtu-language Pakistani daily Wrazpanra Shahadat, which owes its allegiance to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the fugitive chief of Afghan militant group Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan, published two poems on Koran burning. One poem is "The Koran Never Dies Through Torching," by Maulvi Samiullah Abidzai, and the other is "Take a Look at Holy Koran," by Maleeha Rehmat. The poems may have been penned prior to the incidents.
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