At last 7 people including a child were killed in firing incidents on Monday in Karachi.
Young man Waqas was killed by Dacoits and two others were injured in North Nazimabad block D. Two dead bodies were recovered near Plaza complex in the area of Plaza police station.
Young man Sahar Mehdi was killed in a firing incident in Malir Ammar Yasir Society. Unknown armed men gunned down a child in Qasba Colony. A person was killed in Jaffer Tayyar Society.
Government on Thursday ordered hundreds of extra paramilitary policemen onto streets in Karachi after a fresh night of political and ethnic violence killed 08 people.
“We have dispatched 500 FC (Frontier Constabulary) troops in Karachi,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters inIslamabad.
The overnight violence erupted after provincial minister Zulfiqar Mirza, from the main ruling Pakistan People’s Party, criticised its former coalition partner, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and its exiled leader Altaf Hussain.
MQM has called for nationwide protests over Mirza’s criticism.
Roads were deserted Thursday with minimal traffic in normally bustling commercial and residential areas of Karachi, where most shopping malls, markets and restaurants were closed.
“At least 08 people, including a paramilitary Rangers soldier, were killed overnight,” city police chief Saud Mirza told AFP.
He said 21 people were injured and that more than a dozen vehicles had been set ablaze in different parts of the city, adding that police had rounded up around 160 suspects.
At least four people were killed and eight others were injured in firing incidents on Monday in different areas of Karachi.
Unknown armed men killed Hasan in Pak Colony. A man who was identified Abdul Jabbar, killed in Ranchor line in a firing incident.
A body was recovered from Layyari Khada Markeet. Deceased was identified as Raheem. A young man was killed in Lee markeet.
Unknown armed men opened indiscriminately firing on a bus near Lee market as a result six people were injured.
Firing incident was reported between two armed groups in Layyari.
At least 10 persons were killed in firing incidents on Tuesday in Karachi.
Firing incidents were reported between armed groups in Qasba Colony and Hassan Squire.
Three people were killed and six others were injured in Qasba while six people including a woman were injured in Hassan Squire. Unknown assailants injured five in Shershah, one injured person died in Civil Hospital.
Unknown armed-men opened indiscriminate firing at a bus in Qasba Colony. Two people were killed and six others were injured. The death toll from Karachi violence has reached 10.