Pak protesters go on rampage, two dead

Lahore shot dead two men.

Police fired into the air and baton-charged protesters who set cars on fire and ransacked outlets of international fast food companies, including McDonald8217;s, KFC and Pizza Hut, witnesses said.

Protesters also hurled stones at a Holiday Inn hotel and Western-owned filling stations. About 2,000 people staged a sit-in near the provincial Assembly.

The police fired tear gas in the capital to drive out about 400 students who stormed the heavily-guarded diplomatic enclave. The protesters damaged cars, including one belonging to the Indian High Commission.

Some stones were thrown at the Indian mission but sources said it was not the target of the protesters and there was no damage to the building.

The windscreens of the Indian diplomatic car were smashed by the protesters but nobody was hurt, they said.

Demonstrators also smashed windows of a branch of British bank Standard Chartered and shouted 8216;8216;Death to Denmark8217;8217; and 8216;8216;Expel EU ambassadors.8217;8217;

Protesters tore down portraits of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and shouted anti-American slogans outside parliament.

Sherpao said security forces were under orders to protect vital installations and foreign assets. He accused organisers of the Lahore protests of not keeping their word to remain peaceful and expressed concern about plans for a strike Islamists have called for March 3.