By ANDY
SOLTIS
Post Wire Services
September 18, 2012
In an
apparent case of red, white and blue revenge, a Pakistani protester died
yesterday after inhaling smoke from a burning American flag during an anti-US
rally.
Abdullah
Ismail succumbed at Mayo Hospital in Lahore a day after attending the fierce
protest at the city’s Mall Road, where an estimated 10,000 people rallied.
Witnesses
said Ismail had complained of feeling ill after breathing fumes from burning
flags, Pakistan’s Express Tribune reported.
Another
Pakistani protester was killed during clashes with police yesterday after
demonstrators set a press club ablaze, apparently angry that their protest of
an anti-Islam film wasn’t getting enough media coverage.
Hundreds set
fire to the club in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Upper Dir area,
authorities said. Police said cops charged the crowd, beating them with batons.
The mob then
set a government office ablaze.
The
protester died and several were wounded when police and the demonstrators
exchanged gunfire, police said.
Also
yesterday, a man died after being shot in the head Sunday during a march in
which hundreds of people broke through a barricade to get to the US Consulate
in the southern city of Karachi.
There were
more clashes in Karachi yesterday as demonstrators from the student wing of the
Jamaat-e-Islami party tried to reach the consulate.
Police
lobbed tear gas, fired rounds in the air and made 40 arrests. No injuries were
reported.
Pakistanis
have also held many peaceful protests against the film, which critically
portrays the prophet Mohammed. One held in the southwest town of Chaman
yesterday was attended by about 3,000 students and teachers.
The chief
justice of Pakistan’s supreme court ordered the state telecommunications
authority to block the film on YouTube because it is considered blasphemous.
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