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For people with no idea about the geography of the city, is this violence/tension only contained in Lyari and surroundings or in other areas as well?
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Current tension is not related to Lyari.. Layari is around 10 Km away from PIB Colony, where from the riots started yesterday.
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Its MQM, ANP and PPP ghundey (and also Haqiqi) fighting for hold in different area.
None of them can claim innocence. Its in the interest of all parties that Karachi keep on burning. This way their voter base will remain intact and they will be able to round up more and more chanda (bhatta). Karachi has been treated as a prostitute. Everyone use it but no one accepts it as responsibility.
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Good Question ali!!!
Can Karachiite please explain to non karachiites about that areas where this episode of trouble has been going on - Can you point those areas out on this image.
You can open this image in another window and use any editing software of windows paint brush facility to point out the troubled areas.
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^^ you have got less then half of this karachi city :)
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Yes areas like teen Hatti, Sultanabad, Katti Phadi, Gulistan e Johar are not shown / marked in map.
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karachi ka don kon.
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karachi ka don kon.
Karachi KirchiYon mein baaT gaya hai
yea apNe aieney se kaaT gaya hai
Tasaluut ki kashmakash mein
yea chashma kha'aR-o-khass se paaT gaya hai
WataN ahl-e-waTan ka kab hai Mohsin
wataN ahl-e-ZameeN mein Baat Gaya hai
:(
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Issi Don selection ka hi to jaghra hai sara :hinna:
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^^ you have got less then half of this karachi city :)
well...Thats all the area that my browser could capture. Please feel free to add your own map of Karachi with affected areas, that will be great and will help non Karachi people understand situations a bit more.
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Really sad :(
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Things have got better for how many days this time? :@:
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Karachi is like a playground for all these 3 parties, as if they own Karachi, so they can burn it whnever they feel like it
and shamelessly do not even take up responsibility of their crimes!
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Thank you democracy.
I personally feel that parties like MQM and ANP (parties based on race or language) should be disbanded. They have taken Karachi hostage, and turned it into a playground for killers, kidnappers, terrorists, and petty criminals.
I dont remember the previous two military dictators disbanding the MQM (or even trying), i.e. infact one created it and one nurtured it.
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14 people killed in Karachi during the past 24 hours, cant all the allies sit together and solve this problem once for all?
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For sure all parties are responsible for tensions in Karachi but it is absolutely clear that Karachi can remain peaceful WHENEVER MQM wants.
Quaid e tehreek Janab Altaf Hussain Bhai says "Peace" and it's all good on streets in Karachi.
Quaid e tehreek Janab Altaf Hussain Bhai says "Stop target killing" and there is no more target killing.
Educated Karachiites can deny all that want but the party representing them is surely BIG part of the problem. I know there are lots of Karachiites who do not support MQM but election results speak louder.
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^ At the moment it seems mainly ANP versus MQM at the expense of the city. I agree with you that the violence seems to start and stop with some push button.
Normalcy returns to Karachi after 3rd ‘day of mourning’ ends – The Express Tribune
****KARACHI: **Karachi is observing its third day of mourning this week as violence in the city continues, claiming 14 lives in the last 24 hours.
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The day of mourning had been called by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, who had also urged the business community to support his call by keeping their businesses shut.
The Karachi Transport Ittehad has decided to keep their vehicles off the roads today. The All Private Schools Association has also announced that all private schools will remain closed in the city.
**The recent wave of violence began after the killing of a man believed to be affiliated with the Awami National Party (ANP) on Friday evening. The man identified as Ashiq was shot at and injured in Qasba Colony, and later passed away in the evening. Three MQM supporters were also killed late Friday night.
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**Workers of both the MQM and ANP have been targeted this week, sparking a new wave of violence that has seen the city experience no activity and sporadic incidents of violence.
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4:15pm
Altaf Hussain has thanked the citizens of Karachi for observing a “peaceful day of mourning”. {peaceful right, 14 people killed so far}
He has also called on traders to resume their business.
3:50pm
Traders have announced that they will reopen businesses starting 4pm today.
The All Karachi Businessmen Association has announced that business centres will remain open tomorrow.
According to the chairman, Atiq Mir, out of nine working days they have only been able to work for three which has resulted in a loss of Rs20 billion, therefore markets will remain open tomorrow.
3:30pm
Petrol pumps and CNG stations will reopen by 5pm today.
2:00pm
Police arrested two suspects from the Site B area and are not sure if they were involved in the current wave of violence in the city. A 7mm rifle and a TT pistol were recovered from the two suspects, who were identified as Abdul Hanif and Mohammad Imran.
DIG West Imran Yaqoob’s office said that a case of negligence had been lodged against four policemen who were supposed to be performing their duty at Banaras bridge on Friday night, but had not followed instructions.
A high level meeting is scheduled to be held at the Governor House at 3pm, where the police chief Additional IG Karachi Akhtar Gorchani is expected to give a briefing.
1:15pm
Three workers of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) were shot at and wounded in the area of Landhi, where party leader Afaq Ahmed resides.
Gunmen opened fire at the party activists at 8:15 am as they were standing next to shops that the armed men were forcibly shutting down. According to the MQM-H, their workers, and not the store, were targeted.
MQM-H worker Atlfua from Korangi was shot in the head and is in a critical state. He was first admitted to the Korangi hospital and has now been shifted to Jinnah hospital. Two other workers, Liaqat Ali and Abdul Ghaffar alias Soni, were also shot at and are being treated at the Jinnah hospital.
Ahmed split from the MQM (then called the Mohajir Qaumi Movement) in the 1990s and formed his own faction of the party. He was released from jail on December 17, 2011 after serving seven years.
The funeral prayers of MQM supporter Kamaluddin, who was killed in the attack at the Benaras Pul, will be offered on April 1 at Mohajir Chowk, Orangi Town and not on Saturday, as earlier stated by the party.
1:10pm
*Express News *correspondents reporting from different parts of the city said that traffic was low and businesses remained shut.
Parts of Sindh including Hyderabad, Tando Allahyar and Mirpurkhas have also seen businesses shut in some areas and traffic has also been reported to be low.
The Hyderabad to Karachi traffic route is reported to be closed, while traffic going from Hyderabad to other parts of Sindh is low.
Tyres were burnt by miscreants in parts of Hyderabad in the morning today. There were also reports of members of a nationalist party forcing businesses to reopen, which resulted in a clash between two groups.
1:00pm
The Awami National Party’s Senator Shahi Syed, who heads the party in Sindh, is expected to arrive in Karachi today.
According to ANP Sindh Information Secretary Pir Riaz Gul, Shahi Syed has welcomed the raid by the Rangers on Friday on the ANP headquarters, the Bacha Khan Markaz, as nothing was recovered in the raid.
12:30pm
Four police officers who were present at Banaras bridge during the firing incident last night have been arrested. A case will also be registered against them.
11:30am
Petrol pumps are closed all over the city, while the security situation is reported to be volatile in the areas of Pak Colony, Nazimabad, Paposh, Korangi, Orangi, SITE, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Shah Faisal Colony and Manghopir.
A total of 14 people have been killed in Karachi since Friday.
10:55am
Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, Musheer Alam on Saturday morning took notice of the chaos and worsening law and order situation in Karachi.
According to unofficial figures 430 citizens have been killed in incidents of firing during the first three months of 2012.
The chief justice of SHC has taken notice of the breakdown of law and order and resultant loss of lives in the city, said Registrar SHC Abdul Rasool Memon. The Director General Pakistan Rangers and Provincial Police Officer (PPO), commonly called Inspector General Police Sindh, were asked to file detailed reports by evening today, the registrar said.
CJ Musheer Alam is also the head of the monitoring committee formed on the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the suo motu proceedings held in August 2011.
10:50am
The MQM Coordination Committee has accused the Awami National Party of systematically killing Mohajirs, and has called on the Mohajir community to unite for the sake of its survival.
10:45am
The funerals of MQM supporters killed at the Banaras bridge in Karachi last night will be held at Zuhr today. The funerals of Waseem and Hasan will take place in Liaquatabad, Sami Kamal’s will be held in Orangi Town and Kamaluddin’s funeral prayers will be offered in Qasba Colony.
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the two MQM guys killed in PIB colony were blamed on PAC , how come that then turned into ANP -MQM tusstle ...!!
Proabably ANP blamed for the firing on Mushaira , in retaliation two ANP office holders killed ,and it started the whole spate of Counter Strikes all over again .
FUD definitely is a very successful technique , FUD = FEAR , UNCERTAINTY and then there are a lot of D's , deception ,distortion ,disinformation , deceit .... take your pick ..
object is to hold a particular group as Hostage to its fears , which in the first place are deliberately created for the same objective .
it has been used , times and again from Hitler [Nazi party ] to Muslim Leaque [pre-partiotion ] [Direct action days in Bengal and then its threat in Punjab ] to Bush [9/11 and beyond ] , to the ones vying for Karachi as their sole domain....and eliminate any competition .
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MQM
There was a pin drop silence, when Altaf Bhai announced Youm e Sog in morning and when he thanked public for following his order and allowed to open their business by 4pm, its all open and no one can believe that there was a strike in earlier hours.
Bhai ke button ki jai ho.. 
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^ he also congratulated the people for a peaceful day of mourning.