Pakistan

• Iran confirms supreme leader’s death, declares 40-day mourning • Hospital targeted as Israeli missiles pound Tehran, other areas for second day; retaliatory strikes kill 9 in Israel • US claims sinking 9 Iranian warships, B-2 bombers target missile sites; 3 American troops killed • Shipping paralysed as IRGC closes Strait of Hormuz • Trump says war on Iran ‘could last four weeks’; Tehran still open to talks, insists on ‘no limit’ to self-defence JERUSALEM: The war between Iran and the US-Israel alliance escalated sharply on Sunday after Iran confirmed the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khame­nei in a joint US-Israeli airstrike, a move that has plunged the Middle East into its most perilous crisis in decades. As Iranian government declared 40 days of national mourning and seven public holidays following the death of the man who wielded absolute power since 1989, Iranian missiles killed at least nine people in a central Israeli town, while the US and Israel continued bombardment of Tehran, with...

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KARACHI/LAHORE/GILGIT/ISLAMABAD/DI KHAN: Ten people were killed in Karachi and two in Islamabad as protests erupted countrywide against the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli attacks. The situation warranted Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to issue an appeal, urging people to remain peaceful. “Today is a sorrowful day for the entire Muslim ummah, Pakistan’s public and Iran’s public,” he said in a video statement. Stating that every Pakistani citizen was as aggrieved as Iranians, Naqvi said, “My only request is that we all stand with you, but please do not take the law into your hands. You may protest but peacefully.” Karachi clashes In Karachi, protesters clashed with law enforcement personnel near the US Consulate on Mai Kolachi Road. Law enforcement personnel resorted to teargas shelling and baton-charge to control the situation. Subsequently, Section 144 was also extended across Sindh. According to the Home Department, all kinds of wall chalking, protests, demonstra...

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