At least 40 people have been killed in rioting that started late Saturday in the port city of Pakistan, reported the Online news agency on Tuesday, the provincial government of Sindh reissued shoot-at-sight order following escalation of ethnic riot in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi.
Five bodies were recovered by the police late Monday in the Raees Amrohvi colony of the city, media reports said, adding that unidentified miscreants set a number of houses on fire in the locality.
Sounds of sporadic gunfire were heard late in the night in the colony and the adjacent areas, reports said.
Residents of Orangi, the worst-affected area, staged protests against the killings and demanded more police contingents in their area.
The violence is a result of political tensions between Urdu-speaking Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pashtuns from the North West Frontier Province who have settled in Karachi for employment opportunities.
The Pashtuns are tribals hailing from Pakistan’s restive north-western frontier bordering Afghanistan while the Urdu speaking Mohajirs migrated to Pakistan from India around 1947 or later.
Leading political representatives of both the Pashtuns and the MQM are partners in the country’s ruling coalition.
Five bodies were recovered by the police late Monday in the Raees Amrohvi colony of the city, media reports said, adding that unidentified miscreants set a number of houses on fire in the locality.
Sounds of sporadic gunfire were heard late in the night in the colony and the adjacent areas, reports said.
Residents of Orangi, the worst-affected area, staged protests against the killings and demanded more police contingents in their area.
The violence is a result of political tensions between Urdu-speaking Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pashtuns from the North West Frontier Province who have settled in Karachi for employment opportunities.
The Pashtuns are tribals hailing from Pakistan’s restive north-western frontier bordering Afghanistan while the Urdu speaking Mohajirs migrated to Pakistan from India around 1947 or later.
Leading political representatives of both the Pashtuns and the MQM are partners in the country’s ruling coalition.
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