Karachi violence: 10 killed in firing across city

Police and Rangers have conducted operations in various areas of the city, arresting 20 suspects.


Web Desk November 11, 2012
Karachi violence: 10 killed in firing across city

KARACHI: The ongoing spate of violence in the city left at least 10 people dead on Sunday, Express News reported.

Police and Rangers conducted operations in various areas of the city, arresting 20 suspects.

The deadly firing incidents, that killed 10 people took place in Sohrab Goth, Orangi Town, Liaquatabad, SITE area and Kharadar.

While speaking to Express News, Inspector General (IG) Sindh Fayyaz Leghari said that additional police officers have been deployed in the city and situation will soon be brought under control.

Earlier on November 10, around 16 people were gunned down in the city. Karachi has witnessed a spike in sectarian violence in recent days and the wave claimed seven more lives on the same day.

COMMENTS (18)

Junaid | 12 years ago | Reply The accusation of Altaf Hussain that Sindh Government is supporting terrorist activities in Karachi is not only condemnable but also asinine. Everyone knows, which political party keeps armed men brigade to play game of blood and fire. Every single Pakistani knows which political party ignites ethnic clashed and fans extremist activities in the city. Almost on daily basis Pakhtuns are killed in Karachi and there is a complete silence in the media to the plight of the beleaguered community. And the victims are dismissed as workers of ANP as if their blood is cheap. The knowledge that how the MQM’s military wing is undertaking the killings of political opponents, police officers and the Pakhtuns is in public domain- a fact even acknowledged by the government’s own interior ministry report with input from all the official security stakeholders in Karachi, including the Sindh Police, Special Branch, IB, ISI, Rangers and the Interior Ministry. So what is the strategy of the MQM behind these targeted killings of the Pakhtuns? Those carrying out this war has two goals: the first is to create sympathy in Karachi and throughout the country for Urdu speaking community to portray the picture as if they are being driven by the Pakhtuns from their homes parallel to what happened to their forefather over six decades ago in communal riots in the united provinces prior to partition. Second, they have sought to portray their war against the Pakhtuns as a struggle against the land mafia, the Taliban and extremism. The Pakhtuns are being portrayed as aggressors toward the Urdu speaking community. The Urdu speaking community is portrayed as patriotic Pakistanis fighting the Pakhtuns much as their forefathers had fought against communal rioters.
Jewcifer | 12 years ago | Reply

@yasir irshad: Really? Taliban came into power because people were fed up with extortion, rape and theft in Afghanistan. That is why we read about punishments in stadiums and not because of some gladiatorial games.

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