Iran, Israel and Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities deployed troops and imposed a three-day curfew before dawn Monday in the northern cities of Gilgit and Skardu after several people died and tens were injured in violent protests following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes, officials said.
US strikes resulted in violent protests in Pakistan. Demonstrators attacked the US consulate in Karachi, burned a UN office and held rallies, resulting in the deaths of 22 people. The conflict has put Islamabad in a quandary;
Pakistan’s cyber force reportedly hijacks Indian & Israeli platforms amid broader digital conflict and network breaches.
Tensions also rose in the Pakistani city of Karachi following the killing of the Iranian Supreme Leader, with visuals on social media showing large crowds clashing with authorities and storming parts of the US Consulate in protest against the US-Israeli military strikes on Iran.
At least 22 people were killed in protests across Pakistan as Iran’s neighbors brace for turmoil and the fallout of a possible regional conflict.
The tightening strategic embrace between New Delhi and Tel Aviv could test Pakistan’s diplomacy, say analysts.
Rising tensions in the Middle East are once again sending ripples through Pakistan’s textile industry. The All Pakistan Textile Mills
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday, authorities said.
Meanwhile, at least 23 protesters were killed in clashes across Pakistan, including 10 outside the US consulate in Karachi, and 11 people in the Skardu district of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan, where the crowd torched a UN office, while two were killed in Islamabad, reports leading Pakistani daily, The Express Tribune.
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Pakistan perceives India’s growing security cooperation with Israel and other nations as a direct challenge to its own influence in West Asia and as a departure from what Islamabad frames as Muslim unity.