[DAWN] KARACHI: While the Rangers-led Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
operation has managed to restore a measure of peace to the city, a renewed wave of violence has swept the metropolis in the past two months. Some of the high-profile incidents are mentioned here:
Two people were killed and around 20 others belonging to the Shia Bohra community were maimed in a kaboom that took place after Friday prayers outside Saleh Mosque near Pakistain Chowk on March 20.
The same evening two Rangers officials were killed in a suicide kaboom on a paramilitary force's vehicle near Qalandria Chowk in North Karachi.
On April 16, Inspector Zahid Khawaja, who was Preedy SHO, was killed in an armed attack on his car in Defence.
Sabeen Mahmud, a human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
activist and social media campaigner, was rubbed out and her mother sustained bullet wounds when they came under a gun attack on their way back home in their car minutes after organising an interactive discussion titled 'Unsilencing Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
' on April 24.
An assistant professor of Karachi University's mass communication department, Dr Syed Waheed-ur-Rehman, was rubbed out on April 29 in Federal B. Area while he was driving to the university.
On May 1, deputy superintendent of police Abdul Fatah Sangri along with his security guard and driver was rubbed out in a gun attack.
Another DSP Zulfiqar Zaidi and his driver met the same fate on May 9 in Shah Faisal Colony.