- At least five people, two of which political party militants, were killed in the last 24 hours by gunmen in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, Efe said one police source. The crimes were committed between yesterday afternoon and this morning in different areas of the financial capital of Pakistan, according to the source, who said that two of the killings are politically motivated.
Among the dead is a member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and a minority of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), which has its vote bank in mohayir ethnicity, Urdu speakers who migrated from India to Pakistan after the partition the subcontinent in 1947. Both govern in coalition forces in southern Sindh province, whose capital is Karachi, yet they have accused each other of political violence in Pakistan's most populous city.
The MQM also was allied with the PPP at the national level, but opened a government crisis earlier this year to withdraw from the Executive, but finally agreed to give parliamentary support for the party led by the Bhutto dynasty. Mohayires, Punjabis, Sindhis (indigenous ethnic group), Pashtuns and Baluch struggle for political supremacy in Karachi, where a succession of so-called targeted killings by criminal gangs linked to political stands.
According to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) last year in Karachi were killed 750 people, with and without linkage to political parties. 
Among the dead is a member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and a minority of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), which has its vote bank in mohayir ethnicity, Urdu speakers who migrated from India to Pakistan after the partition the subcontinent in 1947. Both govern in coalition forces in southern Sindh province, whose capital is Karachi, yet they have accused each other of political violence in Pakistan's most populous city.
The MQM also was allied with the PPP at the national level, but opened a government crisis earlier this year to withdraw from the Executive, but finally agreed to give parliamentary support for the party led by the Bhutto dynasty. Mohayires, Punjabis, Sindhis (indigenous ethnic group), Pashtuns and Baluch struggle for political supremacy in Karachi, where a succession of so-called targeted killings by criminal gangs linked to political stands.
According to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) last year in Karachi were killed 750 people, with and without linkage to political parties.
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