One killer after protests against Kentucky branches in Pakistan

Pakistan police created dozens of arrests after a series of protests targeting Kentucky branches throughout the country, killing one man.

The demonstrators, angry at the war in Gaza, urge to boycott the series, claiming to be a symbol of the United States and its ally Israel.

At least 11 accidents were confirmed in major cities such as Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.

Videos on social media show armed mobs with iron bars entering Kentucky stores and threatening them to burn them before the police arrive at the demonstrators. In Karachi, two stores were shot.

A video on social media shows a man screaming, “They buy bullets with the money you earn.”

A police officer of BBC News confirmed that the man who was killed, Asif Nawaz, 45, was a KFC employee who was shot during a protest in the city of Decehubura, in the outskirts of Lahore, on April 14.

The Shebura Police officer, Ismail, said that Nawaz was working in the kitchen at the time and was on the shoulder a bullet fired from a pistol more than 100 feet. He told BBC News that the main perpetrator is still in a ton, but the police have led to 40 arrests so far.

The bullet that was fired from that distance is usually fatal, but after the death I found that after hitting his shoulder, the bullet traveled towards his chest.

Mr. Ismail BBC News told that there is no evidence yet, suggested that Mr. Nawaz is the intended goal and the shooting may be accidental.

Throughout Pakistan, influential figures condemned the war in Gaza.

The Islamic Party, Tehreek-E-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) called for protests against Israel and the United States, but denied any involvement in the attacks on Kentucky Fraid Chicken.

The most Sunni researchers in Pakistan, Mufti of Taqi Ozani, encouraged boycott of products that are considered to be linked to war.

But both of them urged the demonstrators to avoid resorting to violence.

Athani said in statements at the National Congress Palestine on Thursday that although it is necessary to boycott or linked products and companies from Israel, Islam is “not a religion that encourages harming others” and said it is prohibited “to throw stones or the lives of anyone.”

“So, keep your protest and boycott, but do it peacefully,” he said.

TLP spokesman Rayhan Mohsen Khan said the group “urged Muslims to boycott Israeli products, but it has not given any invitation to protest outside Kentucky Fried Chicken.”

There have been several western brands facing attacks, provinces and protests in Pakistan and other Islamic countries since the start of the Israel war on Gaza.

Last year, McDonald’s confirmed that he would do Re -purchase all its Israeli restaurants Because the boycott of its imagined support for Israel caused a decrease in sales.

In 2023, Starbucks called for peace and blamed “distorting” his views yet A series of protests and boycott campaigns in part linked to the Israeli war.

KFC and its mother company Yum Brands did not respond yet to order BBC to comment.