Pakistan violence controlled
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July 10, 2011, Sunday
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PAKISTANI forces regained control yesterday over trouble spots in the nation's largest city where five days of political and ethnic violence killed at least 93 people and forced many to stay at home in fear, an official said.
The fighting in Karachi, a sprawling southern port city of 18 million people, has added to the instability in the nation, which is already bedeviled by Islamist militancy.
Karachi occasionally erupts in violence, often due to various ethnic, political and sectarian tensions. But the latest spell has been extraordinary even by this chaotic city's standards.
It follows the decision by the city's most powerful political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to leave the federal ruling coalition and join the opposition.
Such moves by the MQM have traditionally been accompanied by outbursts of fighting.
Senior police official Saood Mirza said yesterday that more than 150 people were detained on suspicion of a role in the gunfights in various neighborhoods.
By early evening yesterday, a spokesman for the paramilitary Rangers said the violence was under "complete control."
"The Rangers have completely taken over the affected areas and the miscreants have been swept out," Maj Farooq Bilal said.
The fighting in Karachi, a sprawling southern port city of 18 million people, has added to the instability in the nation, which is already bedeviled by Islamist militancy.
Karachi occasionally erupts in violence, often due to various ethnic, political and sectarian tensions. But the latest spell has been extraordinary even by this chaotic city's standards.
It follows the decision by the city's most powerful political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to leave the federal ruling coalition and join the opposition.
Such moves by the MQM have traditionally been accompanied by outbursts of fighting.
Senior police official Saood Mirza said yesterday that more than 150 people were detained on suspicion of a role in the gunfights in various neighborhoods.
By early evening yesterday, a spokesman for the paramilitary Rangers said the violence was under "complete control."
"The Rangers have completely taken over the affected areas and the miscreants have been swept out," Maj Farooq Bilal said.
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