Western brands have boycott and other forms of protests in Muslim majority countries due to Gaza’s War.
The Police have arrested about 200 people in Pakistan in recent weeks after more than 10 group attacks against the points of sale of fast food chain based in the United States KFC, caused by the anti -us feeling, the unconditional support of the United States for the near Israel of Washington, Ally Ally Allys Alysals.
The fast food chain has become a white protest and boycott the calls of Islamist parties since the beginning of the war in Gaza while linking the brand with the support of the United States to Israel.
At least 178 people have been arrested, officials said this week.
Police in the main cities of Pakistan, including the Port City of southern Karachi, the eastern city of Lahore and the capital, Islamabad, confirmed at least 11 incidents in which the KFC Chicken restaurants were attacked by protesters armed with sticks and walks.
A police officer, who spoke on anonymity, said that a KFC employee was shot dead this week in a store on the outskirts of Lahore by unknown armed men. The official added that there was no protest at that time and the police were investigating whether the murder was politically motivated or for some other reason.
In Lahore, the police said they were increasing security in 27 KFC exits after two attacks occurred and five were avoided.
“We are investigating the role of different individuals and grooves in these attacks,” said Faisal Kamran, a Lahore Lahore police officer to the Reuters news agency, added that 11 people, including a member of the Tehek-E-Labbaik Pakistan Islamist party. He added that the protests were not officially organized by the TLP.
TLP spokesman, Rean Mohsin Khan, said the group “has urged Muslims to boycott Israeli products, but has not called the protest outside KFC.”
“If any other person who claims to be a TLP leader or activist has been delivered to this activity, they should be the tasks as their personal act that has nothing to do with the parties of parts,” Khan said.
Western brands have hit their legs by boycott and other forms of protests in Pakistan, other main Muslim countries and several Western nations on Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
In February of last year, McDonald’s cited boycott campaigns in the middle, Indonesia and Malaysia for sales that grow only 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to the growth of 16.5 percent in the same quarter of the previous year.
Unilever, which produces deaf soap, ice cream from Ben & Jerry and Knorr Stock Cubes, also said that Indonesian sales in the same quarter had experienced a two -digit decrease as a result of “geopolitically focused campaigns and consumer oriented.”
A KFC restaurant in the region administered by Pakistan of Cashmiro was also burned in March last year when protesters sang “free Palestine.”
More than 51,900 people have been killed in the Israel War of Gaza, which begged 18 months ago.
At least 1,139 people died in Israel during the attacks led by Hamas of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were captive tasks.
KFC and its yum brands company have not yet responded to the news of the sentence in Pakistan.