Pakistan’s provincial Sindh government has beefed up police and paramilitary deployment at the US Consulate to over 1,000 personnel following the recent clashes between police and protesters over the killing of Shiite Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Over 12 protesters were killed, and around 47 were injured in Karachi on March 1 when they tried to break through the security perimeter around the US Consulate. Similar protests were held in Lahore and Islamabad.The police and rangers personnel had been increased from around 100 to 1,088 following the attack on the consulate, a senior police official said on Sunday. SSP (police) Amjad Ahmed Sheikh said security measures had been increased because of the violence by a crowd of around 300 people, most of them belonging to a religious party’s student wing, last Sunday.The government has formed a Judicial Inquiry Commission to probe the incident, and it held its first meeting on Saturday.Senior police officials said the police have registered three terrorism, murder and attempted murder cases against 150-200 unidentified protesters.583 Afghan Taliban operatives killed in border op: IslamabadPakistan’s security forces had killed 583 Afghan Taliban operatives in the ongoing military operation launched along the border last month, according to an official data released on Sunday. Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq on February 26 after the Afghan Taliban attacked 53 locations along the border. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the Taliban losses include “583 killed and 795 injured”.