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Western businesses ransacked in Pakistani looting
Protesters ransacked outlets of a Norwegian phone firm, a U.S. fast food restaurant and banks in northern Pakistan on Wednesday in fresh violence sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers.Police fired tear gas in the towns of Peshawar, Tank and Dera Ismail Khan in North West Frontier Province to disperse angry crowds, a day after two people were killed in protests in the eastern city of Lahore, witnesses said. Police said at least one policeman was wounded in an exchange of fire between police and protesters in Tank, which is close to a tribal region troubled by battles between security forces and al Qaeda-linked militants. Protesters in Peshawar attacked two franchises of the Norwegian mobile telephone firm Telenor and also ransacked an outlet of U.S. fast food chain KFC, witnesses said. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-02-15 |
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