Topic: Muttahida Qaumi Movement

Ethnic killings spark doom in Pakistan's biggest city

KARACHI (Reuters) - Imran Ali's kidnappers jabbed pistols into his sides and led him down a quiet street as fresh ethnic carnage spread fear in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi.Two other people blindfolded and held with the construction worker had just ...

Pakistan mounts operation against Karachi killings

Pakistan police and paramilitary rangers have launched a major operation in the biggest city Karachi to quell bloodshed that has claimed more than 100 lives in the past week, officials said Wednesday.The latest spasm of violence is the worst criminal and ...

Calls for army grow as Karachi week toll hits 101

Pakistani politicians, industrialists and citizens stepped up calls on Tuesday for the army to intervene to quell violence destabilising Karachi, where more than 100 have been killed in a week."We demand the armed forces take over the city, restore law and ...

Pakistan army says ready to restore Karachi peace

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military is ready to help stem a tide of political and ethnic violence in the city of Karachi, if the civilian government asked it to do so, a newspaper Sunday quoted country's powerful army chief as saying ...

65 killed in Karachi violence: officials

Ethnic and criminal violence blamed on gangs has killed 65 people in Pakistan's financial capital of Karachi, with police the latest victims shot dead in a brazen ambush, officials said Saturday.The government has been left struggling for solutions to the ...

39 killed in Karachi violence: officials

Violence between ethnic groups and criminal gangs killed 39 people in Pakistan's financial capital of Karachi, police said Thursday, as the government again struggled for solutions to the unrest.A former MP for the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Waja Karimdad ...

Pakistan military 'concerned' over Karachi unrest

Pakistan's military voiced concern for the first time on Monday over ethnic and political violence in the country's financial capital that has killed 800 people so far this year.The military, which has ruled the country for more than half ...

Pakistan's poor dying in Karachi violence

Life stopped for Pakistani cab driver Ghulam Mohammed when his seven-year-old daughter was shot dead on her way home from school, a victim of senseless political and ethnic violence sweeping Karachi.Shumaila was Mohammed's only child, born after he and his ...

800 killed in Pakistan's Karachi this year: rights body

Ethnic and politically linked violence in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi has killed 800 people so far this year, the country's independent human rights organisation said Friday."About 800 people have been the victims of violent shootings in the last seven ...

Turmoil in Pakistan as party quits Cabinet

0 . Pakistan's U.S.-allied ruling party suffered a fresh blow to its fragile hold on power Tuesday when a coalition partner said it will quit the ...