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| Death toll rises to 15 in Karachi violence | |
| 2011-06-15 | |
| [Dawn] A fresh wave of violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions has killed at least 15 people in Bloody Karachi, DawnNews reported, adding that incidents of firing continued in the city on Tuesday. Two people were maimed in an incident of firing in the city's Liaquat National Hospital. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... AFP quoted officials as saying that at least 12 people were killed in the city overnight. "At least 12 people were killed in assassinations, which started Monday evening and lasted late in the night," Sindh's home ministry front man Sharfuddin Memon told AFP. Memon said police and paramilitary troops were stepping up patrols in the troubled western and central neighbourhoods to avert further violence. Among the dead was an MQM activist in Aligarh Bazaar area and local lawyer Zia Alam, a member of the Pakistain People's Party (PPP). In 2010, political violence in Bloody Karachi was the deadliest for years, dominated by flare ups in August after an MQM politician was rubbed out and in October on the eve of the election for his successor. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistain says 748 people -- 447 political activists and the rest innocent citizens -- were killed in targeted shootings last year. Targeted killings in 2009 claimed 272 lives. Bloody Karachi is also plagued by ethnic and sectarian killings, crime and kidnappings.
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| Posted by:Fred |