A senior doctor at Civil Hospital Karachi told BBC News that nine bodies and at least 32 injured people were brought to the hospital after violent clashes with police near the United States Consulate General in Karachi.
Hundreds of pro-Iran protesters took to the streets in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad following US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
An official of the private rescue service Edhi Foundation also confirmed that they shifted nine dead bodies and dozens injured to hospital. Clashes started when police tried to stop demonstrators from entering the consulate complex. Police have not yet issued an official statement on the situation.
A UN official told BBC News that a United Nations office was set on fire in Gilgit, in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan.
Police confirmed that a curfew was imposed in the area after hundreds of people began protesting.
Shia organisations had announced protest rallies in several cities, including Islamabad.
Moments ago, two eyewitnesses from eastern and northwestern Tehran have heard loud explosions in the Iranian capital.
The source in eastern Tehran has said "the explosions were worse than yesterday's" and adds "my whole room was shaking".
Iranian outlets have also reported on explosions in different parts of Tehran.
UK Defence Secretary John Healey says he's concerned that "increasingly indiscriminate attacks from Iran" are putting British personnel and British people abroad at risk.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, he says 300 British personnel were within several hundred yards of a strike on a military base in Bahrain.
The defence secretary adds: "Make no mistake, this is a regime that he has run for decades as a source of evil, it has murdered its own citizens, it has exported terror including to Britain."
Healey says "no one" will mourn the death of the Ayatollah following a strike on the offices of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday.
Israel’s Channel 12 says the country’s air force killed a total of 30 senior Iranian officials - including Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - “in just half a minute in the opening strike” against its longstanding enemy yesterday.
On its N12 website, journalists say Israeli political and security echelons stress that “we are only at the beginning, and we still have a campaign of at least several days ahead of us.”
Other Israeli media highlight the extensive planning and tight cooperation between the Israeli and US military in the war so far as well as the accuracy of intelligence.
However, defence analyst Yoav Limor cautions in Israel Hayom that gaps could soon emerge between the US and Israel.
“Israel has all the patience and readiness to prosecute this war for several days or weeks, perhaps even longer,” he suggests, “but it is not clear that Trump has the same level of patience and cool headedness.”
“For America, this is a war of choice, but for Israel it is a war of need,” notes veteran journalist Nahum Barnea in Yedioth Ahronoth.
Despite US President Trump’s full support so far, he warns of the danger of US public opinion shifting against Israel.
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