Violence erupts in eastern Pakistan as Islamists try to march on capital for pro-Palestinian rally

Violent clashes erupted Friday between police and Islamists in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore after security forces tried to stop thousands of demonstrators from leaving the city for the capital, Islamabad, where they planned to stage a pro-Palestinian rally outside the U.S. Embassy, officials said. The clashes in the capital of Punjab province began on Thursday but intensified on Friday after police baton-charged the demonstrators and fired tear gas to disperse them at multiple locations. In a statement, the Islamist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, or TLP, claimed that two of its supporters had been killed and 50 others injured since Thursday.