{"id":90045,"date":"2025-10-15T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=90045"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:40:20","slug":"five-dead-at-anti-israel-rally-outside-us-embassy-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/five-dead-at-anti-israel-rally-outside-us-embassy-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead at anti-Israel rally outside US embassy in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<p>(JNS.org<span class=\"light-weight-content\">) \u2013&nbsp;<\/span>Five people, including a police officer, were killed and dozens wounded on Monday as clashes erupted between Pakistani security forces and thousands of anti-Israel protesters in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90046\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90046\" class=\"wp-image-90046 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90046\" class=\"wp-image-90046 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pakistan_Monument_Islamabad_Capital-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-90046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors tour the Pakistan Monument in Islamabad on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yaarahmadd via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Demonstrators opened fire on security forces, killing the officer and injuring others, Punjab Police Chief Usman Anwar told the&nbsp;<em>Associated Press<\/em>. According to the report, three protesters and a passerby also died in the clashes before authorities dispersed the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators had planned to protest outside the U.S. embassy in the city, Anwar added.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party, which organized the protest, said in a statement that hundreds of its supporters were injured.<\/p>\n<p>TLP said party chief Saad Rizvi was among those wounded on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters had begun a march from eastern Pakistan on Friday, traveling toward Lahore and ultimately Islamabad, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Monday\u2019s deadly clash, police arrested more than 100 people during a protest on Saturday as part of the ongoing march.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Deputy Interior Minister Talal Chaudhry said over the weekend that he did not understand why TLP resorted to violence instead of celebrating the Gaza ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>TLP rose to prominence in Pakistan\u2019s 2018 election by campaigning on a platform of defending the country\u2019s blasphemy law, which mandates the death penalty for anyone who insults Islam.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Five%20dead%20at%20anti-Israel%20rally%20outside%20US%20embassy%20in%20Pakistan\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[14866,8790,8795,8788,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90047,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90045\/revisions\/90047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}