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[url="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7410839.html"]Ethnic violence claims 14 lives in Pakistan's Karachi[/url]
At least 14 people have been killed in a fresh wave of ethnic and political violence in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi over the past 24 hours, police and rivals said.
Rival nationalist groups met with the governor of Sindh Province, of which Karachi is the capital, Tuesday night and discussed ways to stop the violence, officials said.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement or MQM, the group of Urdu-speaking people and Awami National Party or ANP, which represents the Pashto-speaking population, accuse each other of target killings.
Both MQM and ANP are part of the ruling coalition in Sindh province but their ethnic and political rivalry has gripped Karachi, also the commercial city of some 18 million population.
Police said that at least 14 people were gunned down in separate armed attacks blamed on a wave of ethnic violence that spread from the affected areas to several parts on Tuesday.
Businesses remained closed in different parts of the violence- hit areas amid a rattle of gunfire with public transport off the roads.
The ethnic violence also reached educational institution and student groups of the two parties clashed at a major university on Tuesday. A student leader of the ethnic Pashtun group was injured and shifted to hospital.
The breakdown of law and order, however, failed to make the city's security establishment take additional measures to restore peace.
A spokesman for the ANP said that gunmen attacked the party office in the Muslimabad area, killing two of its activists.
Leaders of the MQM and ANP met Governor of Sindh Province Dr. Eshrat-ul-Ebad and condemned the renewed wave of killings in the city and agreed to work together to prevent such incidents and weed out criminals who were causing a breakdown of law and order.
The two sides agreed that those involved in the killings had no political support. They also agreed to constitute neighborhood committees to keep an eye on such elements and frustrate their designs.
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[url="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7410839.html"]Ethnic violence claims 14 lives in Pakistan's Karachi[/url]
At least 14 people have been killed in a fresh wave of ethnic and political violence in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi over the past 24 hours, police and rivals said.
Rival nationalist groups met with the governor of Sindh Province, of which Karachi is the capital, Tuesday night and discussed ways to stop the violence, officials said.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement or MQM, the group of Urdu-speaking people and Awami National Party or ANP, which represents the Pashto-speaking population, accuse each other of target killings.
Both MQM and ANP are part of the ruling coalition in Sindh province but their ethnic and political rivalry has gripped Karachi, also the commercial city of some 18 million population.
Police said that at least 14 people were gunned down in separate armed attacks blamed on a wave of ethnic violence that spread from the affected areas to several parts on Tuesday.
Businesses remained closed in different parts of the violence- hit areas amid a rattle of gunfire with public transport off the roads.
The ethnic violence also reached educational institution and student groups of the two parties clashed at a major university on Tuesday. A student leader of the ethnic Pashtun group was injured and shifted to hospital.
The breakdown of law and order, however, failed to make the city's security establishment take additional measures to restore peace.
A spokesman for the ANP said that gunmen attacked the party office in the Muslimabad area, killing two of its activists.
Leaders of the MQM and ANP met Governor of Sindh Province Dr. Eshrat-ul-Ebad and condemned the renewed wave of killings in the city and agreed to work together to prevent such incidents and weed out criminals who were causing a breakdown of law and order.
The two sides agreed that those involved in the killings had no political support. They also agreed to constitute neighborhood committees to keep an eye on such elements and frustrate their designs.
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