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[url="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/20129219618263113.html"]Death toll rises in Pakistan video protests[/url]

At least 17 reported killed as demonstrators clash with police, while nation holds "Love the Prophet Day" marches.

Tens of thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets across the country after the government called an impromptu public holiday to let people protest under the banner of "Love the Prophet Day".



In Karachi, armed protesters among a group of 15,000 fired on police, killing two officers, as at least 10 protesters died in the violence. The crowd also burned six cinemas, two banks, a KFC and five police vehicles.

Crowds armed with clubs and bamboo poles converged on the Firdaus picture house, "smashing it up and setting furniture ablaze", according to Gohar Ali, a police officer.



Witnesses said a separate rampaging crowd stormed the Shama cinema, notorious locally for showing films considered to be pornographic.



In the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police fired on rioters who were torching a cinema. Mohammad Amir, a driver for a Pakistani television station, was killed when police bullets hit his vehicle at the scene, said Kashif Mahmood, a reporter for ARY TV.



At least four protesters and one police officer were killed in the northwestern city, along with 40 injured and two cinemas and two shops torched.



In the capital Islamabad, some 19 protesters and eight police were injured. And in Lahore, at least five protesters were wounded.