Shooting In Karachi

China on Wednesday termed the shooting incident in Pakistan's Karachi city, in which a Chinese national was injured, as an "isolated case", days after the all-weather allies termed the bus explosion killing nine Chinese.

A Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting in Texas last week was buried in her home town of Karachi on Wednesday, her coffin draped with Pakistan's green and white flag.

Sabika Sheikh was among 10 students and staff who were killed in a mass shooting on Friday at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Sabika, a Karachi teenager, was studying at Santa Fe High School on a US State Department scholarship under the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme.

An Afghan guard with a "personal grudge" shot dead a junior diplomat inside the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Monday, police said.

Pakistani police say gunmen have opened fire on a congregation of a minority Shiite sect, killing five people and wounding two.

Masked gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead two military policemen today in Pakistan's volatile port city, Karachi, where authorities have been staging a crackdown for two years on Taliban militants and criminal gangs.

Holed up deep inside a Taliban-friendly neighbourhood, gunmen waited patiently for the passenger plane to approach the airport before raising their guns into the night sky and unleashing a hail of bullets to shoot it down.

Pakistan's defence ministry has asked for the country's top-rating television channel to be shut down after it broadcast allegations blaming an intelligence agency for shooting a leading journalist, officials said on Wednesday.

Violence rocked Pakistan's biggest city today as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.

More than 2,000 people were murdered in Pakistan's largest city last year, but the shooting death of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in one of Karachi's most upscale neighborhoods sparked an unusual outcry and highlighted a growing trend of citizens using social media to hold the country's rich and powerful to account.

A Pakistani lawmaker from a coalition partner in the government was shot dead with three of his guards in a drive-by shooting in Karachi on Thursday, police said.

Five people were shot dead at a restaurant late on Thursday in Pakistan's port city of 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...

China on Wednesday termed the shooting incident in Pakistan's Karachi city, in which a Chinese national was injured, as an "isolated case", days after the all-weather allies termed the bus explosion killing nine Chinese.

A Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting in Texas last week was buried in her home town of Karachi on Wednesday, her coffin draped with Pakistan's green and white flag.

Sabika Sheikh was among 10 students and staff who were killed in a mass shooting on Friday at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Sabika, a Karachi teenager, was studying at Santa Fe High School on a US State Department scholarship under the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme.

An Afghan guard with a "personal grudge" shot dead a junior diplomat inside the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Monday, police said.

Pakistani police say gunmen have opened fire on a congregation of a minority Shiite sect, killing five people and wounding two.

Masked gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead two military policemen today in Pakistan's volatile port city, Karachi, where authorities have been staging a crackdown for two years on Taliban militants and criminal gangs.

Holed up deep inside a Taliban-friendly neighbourhood, gunmen waited patiently for the passenger plane to approach the airport before raising their guns into the night sky and unleashing a hail of bullets to shoot it down.

Pakistan's defence ministry has asked for the country's top-rating television channel to be shut down after it broadcast allegations blaming an intelligence agency for shooting a leading journalist, officials said on Wednesday.

Violence rocked Pakistan's biggest city today as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.

More than 2,000 people were murdered in Pakistan's largest city last year, but the shooting death of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in one of Karachi's most upscale neighborhoods sparked an unusual outcry and highlighted a growing trend of citizens using social media to hold the country's rich and powerful to account.

A Pakistani lawmaker from a coalition partner in the government was shot dead with three of his guards in a drive-by shooting in Karachi on Thursday, police said.

Five people were shot dead at a restaurant late on Thursday in Pakistan's port city of 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...