KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday, authorities said.

Smoke and flames rise from the premises of the U.N. office, after it was set ablaze by protesters, following news of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the city of Gilgit, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan March 1, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Mubarak Hussain

US strikes resulted in violent protests in Pakistan. Demonstrators attacked the US consulate in Karachi, burned a UN office and held rallies, resulting in the deaths of 22 people. The conflict has put Islamabad in a quandary;

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed condolences for the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. He criticised the violation of international law,

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan struck a delicate balance at a tense UN Security Council meeting on Saturday, condemning unwarranted attacks on Iran, expressing solidarity with Gulf states, and urging an immediate return to negotiations and diplomacy.

Oil prices pushed higher for a second day while global equities declined on Tuesday, as investors monitored escalating tensions in the Middle East. The United States and Israel continued strikes on Iran, with Tehran launching additional attacks on neighbouring countries.

While the U.S. and Iran have been ratcheting up threats against each other, a simmering conflict in two neighboring countries just boiled over: Afghanistan and Pakistan devolved into armed conflict on Friday,

Iran's recent retaliatory drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia and key oil refinery sites amid joint US-Israel attacks and Ayatollah Khamenei's k.