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These riots started at 10 am when students from different academic institutions took out rallies on different road and started stoning on security forces.
After Juma prayer big rallies led by religious leaders started their mission and marched towards US consulate where they scuffled with security forces.
As precautionary measures, the police blocked all the entering ways to Islamabad by installing containers; however protesters piled stones of security forces and entered the diplomatic enclave after removing all the barricades.
On the other hand, security forces did shelling from helicopter in order to disperse protestors. In Faizabad, angry people also made hue and cry and set a container on fire.
A large number of police vans parked at a CNG station were also set on fire.
At Sarina Chawk, protestors also piled stones on security forces and broke the checkpost. Police did shelling on them and arrested three people.
Before this, angry people torched a toll plaza on IJP Road.
In Islamabad, angry mob broke windows of vans parked outside the police station. Demonstrators also tried to enter the US consulate by removing the container but police dispersed them by throwing shells of tear gas on them.
In the area of Rawalpindi at Pir Wadhai Road, protestors also threw stones on police vans and broke public property. While keeping in view, that law and enforcement agencies have imposed section 144 under which nobody is allowed to protest with arms and ammunition.
Likewise, Express Way also has been blocked from Airport to Zero Point. In Lahore, protestors reached US consulate and shouted slogans against the US which is using Machiavellian tactics in order to ignite Muslim Ummah.
A private TV channel’s driver was killed when police opened fire to disperse protesters of an anti-Islam film who were torching a cinema in Peshawar on Friday.
Kashif Mahmood, the reporter said that he was sitting with the driver, Mohammad Amir, in their vehicle covering the protest when police opened fire.
He said three bullets hit the vehicle, including one that critically wounded Amir, who later died in the hospital.
The TV channel showed footage of Amir at the hospital as doctors tried to save him. It also showed the windshield of the vehicle shattered by several gunshots.
During the protest, five other men were also badly hurt and shifted to hospital but they succumbed to injuries.
However, Police could not immediately be reached for comment.
In violent demonstrations, angry mob set fire to three cinemas in Peshawar. Three protesters were also wounded when a cinema guard opened fire as angry crowds armed with clubs and bamboo poles converged on the Firdaus picture house, smashing it up and setting furniture ablaze, police officer Gohar Ali told AFP.
Witnesses said a rampaging crowd stormed the Shama cinema, smashing windows and setting it on fire.
Also, the authorities have used shipping containers to block roads leading to the US consulate, the offices of Western aid organisations and other sensitive buildings.
In Peshawar, protestors also set four vans on fire which had been parked in the compound of Chamber of Commerce.
In Lahore, angry people snatched a gun from a policeman and broke windows of a commercial bank.
A policeman was killed along with nine others in an exchange of fire with protesters in Karachi, police official Mohammad Shakeel said.
Scuffles broke out when protesters tried to march towards the US consulate, throwing stones at police and trying to remove shipping containers that blocked the road, police said.
Officers fired off tear gas shells and fired into the air to disperse the crowd, but three policemen were wounded by gunfire from an unknown direction, Shakeel said.
“They were shifted to hospital where one of our constables died,” he added.
While keeping in view current situation, an emergency has been enforced in hospitals in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Karachi and Quetta. All the professionals and specialists particularly doctors, surgeons and paramedical staff have been ordered to attend their duties.
The government has called an impromptu public holiday on Friday – a “day of love for the prophet” – and has urged people to protest peacefully to show their opposition to a US-made anti-Islam film and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a French magazine.
All of Pakistan s major political parties and religious groups have announced protests, as have many trade and transport organisations.
Educational institutions, banks, government and private offices and markets across the country remained closed.
There was no public or private transport on the roads and CNG and petrol pumps too were shut.
Additional security forces were deployed in most cities and authorities were on high alert.
The anti-Islam film has triggered protests in at least 20 countries since excerpts were posted online, and more than 30 people have been killed in related violence.
But this week France also found itself in the firing line after the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo printed a batch of cartoons caricaturing the founder of Islam.
