Protest in Karachi against U.S and Israeli strikes in Iran

Описание: (3 Mar 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Karachi, Pakistan - 2 March 2026
1. Members of the Shiite Muslim community protesting, carrying posters of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chanting slogans (Urdu) “down with the U.S.” and “friends of the U.S. are traitors”
2. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mirza Yousuf Hussain, local scholar: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOTS 2-4++
“We are holding a protest demonstration to raise our right demands. Our children have been arrested; they have been martyred and those who martyred them should be booked under the law and brought to justice. The detained persons should be released without delay.”
2. Various of protesters ++SPLIT SCREEN++
3. Various of women carrying placards, reading (Urdu) “someone like me can never pledge allegiance to someone like Yazid”, (referring to the killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the Battle of Karbala in the 7th century in present-day Iraq, with the army of then Caliph Yazid, to whom Hussein had refused to pledge allegiance)
4. Various of women chanting slogans (Urdu) “down with the USA” and “down with Israel”
5. Close of woman crying over Khamenei's death
6. Men marching and beating their chests
STORYLINE:
Members of the Shiite Muslim community in Pakistan took to the streets of the southern port city of Karachi on Monday to protest the war in the Middle East after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.

It follows violent clashes between protesters and security forces on Sunday which left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured in the city as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate, Pakistani authorities said.

Protesters, holding placards and banners denouncing the U.S. and Israel attacks, demanded on Monday the release of those involved in attacking the consulate a day earlier.

“Our children have been arrested; they have been martyred and those who martyred them should be booked under the law and brought to justice. The detained persons should be released without delay,” said Mirza Yousuf Hussain, a local scholar.

The violence in Pakistan comes after the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S. and Israeli strikes across Iran on Saturday which triggered anger amongst Shiite Muslims in the country.

Police and officials at a hospital in Karachi said that at least 50 people were also wounded in the clashes and some of them were in critical condition.

AP video by Muhammad Farooq

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