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Target Killing in Karachi

By Muskan Hina • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Features

We have become tired of hearing from the authorities that Karachi is the lifeblood of Pakistan and its peace will be maintained at every cost, but the thing is that still at large scale, the Karachi target killing is going on at full throttle unabated.
MQM says that land mafia and drug mafia is behind these [...]



Karachi violence: beyond the Taliban

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The killings in Karachi have continued since the terrorist attack on the Ashura procession, with 40 deaths in four days primarily of rival political activists. It has led to recriminations amongst the major political parties in Sindh and in the National Assembly the opposition has demanded a debate on the Karachi killings. Yet the interior [...]



Series of Blasts in Karachi

By revo • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Such a time has come when one thinks and waits for quite a time before believing upon the private media channels of Pakistan, but when I received numerous phone calls from the reliable acquaintances about the serial blasts in the megapolis of Karachi, only then I started believing the redoubtable situation, and the situation is [...]