...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and in the country's north on Sunday left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
demonstrators attempted to storm the U.S. Consulate, authorities said.
In the north of the country, demonstrators also attacked U.N. and government offices.
The violence came after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
. Police and officials at a hospital in Karachi said that at least 50 people were also maimed in the festivities and some of them were at death's door.
President Asif Ali
Ten PercentZardari
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
expressed his ''profound sorrow over the martyrdom'' of Khamenei'' and conveyed his condolences to Iran, according to his office. He said: ''Pakistain stands with the land of the Medes and the Persians in this moment of grief and shares in their loss.''
Summaiya Syed Tariq, a police surgeon at the city's main government hospital, confirmed six bodies and multiple injured people were brought to the facility. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
she said the corpse count rose to 10 after four critically maimed people died.
Twelve people were killed and over 80 maimed in festivities with police in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region when thousands of Shiite protesters angered by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran attacked the offices of the U.N. Military Observer Group and the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), local police official Asghar Ali said.
A government front man Shabir Mir said all staff working for those organizations was safe. He said protesters repeatedly clashed with police at various places in the region, damaged the offices of a local charity, and set fire to police offices. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
he said authorities had deployed troops and brought the situation under control.
The U.S. Embassy in Pakistain said in a post on X that it was monitoring reports of ongoing demonstrations at the U.S. Consulates General in Karachi and Lahore, as well as calls for additional protests at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and the Consulate General in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
It advised U.S. citizens in Pakistain to monitor local news, stay aware of their surroundings, avoid large crowds and keep their travel registration with the U.S. government up to date.
Consulate windows smashed
In Karachi, which is the capital of southern Sindh province and Pakistain's largest city, senior police official Irfan Baloch said that protesters briefly attacked the perimeter of the U.S. Consulate, but were later dispersed.
He dismissed as baseless reports that any part of the consulate building was set on fire. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
he said that protesters torched a nearby police post and smashed windows of the consulate before security forces arrived and regained control.
Witnesses said that dozens of Shiite protesters remained gathered about a kilometer (half-mile) from the consulate, urging others to join them. They said one of the protesters had tried to burn a window of the consulate, before security forces arrived there and dispersed the demonstrators.