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Gunfire rattles Karachi as deaths mount
Gunshots rattled Pakistan's largest city on Saturday as authorities scrambled to bring an end to political and ethnic violence that has claimed at least 93 lives in five days.The fighting in Karachi, a southern port city of 18 million people, has added to the instability in this nuclear-armed nation and U.S. ally already bedeviled by Islamist milit...
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Pakistan security to shoot on sight in Karachi
Security forces were ordered to shoot gunmen on sight Friday in Pakistan's largest city, after three days of violence that killed at least 61 people and prompted political leaders to call for a day of mourning that shut businesses and kept public traffic off the roads.This week's violent spate in Karachi was among the worst this year for a city tha...
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Karachi turns deadly amid Pakistan's rivalries
This chaotic city of 18 million people on the shores of the Arabian Sea has never shrunk from violence. But this year, Karachi has outdone even itself. Drive-by shootings motivated by political and ethnic rivalries have reached new heights. Marauding gangs are grabbing tracts of land to fatten their electoral rolls. Drug barons are carving out fief...
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Gunfire rattles Karachi as deaths mount
Gunshots rattled Pakistan's largest city on Saturday as authorities scrambled to bring an end to political and ethnic violence that has claimed at least 93 lives in five days.The fighting in Karachi, a southern port city of 18 million people, has added to the instability in this nuclear-armed nation and U.S. ally already bedeviled by Islamist milit...
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Pakistan security to shoot on sight in Karachi
Security forces were ordered to shoot gunmen on sight Friday in Pakistan's largest city, after three days of violence that killed at least 61 people and prompted political leaders to call for a day of mourning that shut businesses and kept public traffic off the roads.This week's violent spate in Karachi was among the worst this year for a city tha...
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Karachi turns deadly amid Pakistan's rivalries
This chaotic city of 18 million people on the shores of the Arabian Sea has never shrunk from violence. But this year, Karachi has outdone even itself. Drive-by shootings motivated by political and ethnic rivalries have reached new heights. Marauding gangs are grabbing tracts of land to fatten their electoral rolls. Drug barons are carving out fief...
