{"id":621,"date":"2010-08-03T06:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=621"},"modified":"2010-08-03T06:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:01:03","slug":"karachi-killing-triggers-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/08\/03\/621\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi killing triggers clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"raza-karachi\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/raza-karachi.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"183\" \/>At least 31 people have been killed in the Pakistani city of Karachi after clashes broke out following the killing of a local politician, local media has reported.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scores were also said to have been injured after Raza Haider and his bodyguard were shot dead outside a mosque on Monday.<br \/>Haider&#8217;s killing prompted his supporters to erect barricades in the street, and cars, restaurants and other businesses were reportedly set alight.<br \/>Fazal Qureshi, the chief editor of the Pakistan press international news agency told Al Jazeera that &#8220;all the buses have gone off the road and people aren&#8217;t leaving their homes unless they really have to&#8221;.<br \/>Shops and services have been closed in large areas of Karachi.<br \/>&#8220;Some have been closed in mouring&#8221; for the slain politician, while other shop-owners closed up in fear of rioting and destruction, Quershi said.<br \/>Rehman Malik, the interior minister, condemned the assassination and called for calm.<br \/>Haider who belonged to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a partner in the Sindh provincial ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Peoples Party, was targeted by gunmen on two motorcycles in the North Nazimabad neighbourhood.<br \/>&#8220;He had gone to attend a relative&#8217;s funeral. Drive-by shooters attacked him near a mosque, injuring him and his guard seriously,&#8221; Waqar Mallan, police official told the AFP news agency.<br \/>&#8220;He died on his way to hospital. It is a targeted killing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Conspiracy&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jameel Soomro, spokesman for the Sindh provincial government, said the killing was a part of a broader &#8220;conspiracy&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;The country is in the grip of natural calamities and we are fighting against terrorists. At this moment, conspirators want to destabilise Karachi, which is the financial engine of Pakistan,&#8221; he said.<br \/>Provincial authorities have already banned public political meetings in Karachi in an effort to control a rising number of targeted killings.<br \/>The government has not released exact figures, but security officials say more than 125 people have died since the beginning of this year.<br \/>The city of 16 million is plagued by ethnic and sectarian killings, crime and kidnappings.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 31 people have been killed in the Pakistani city of Karachi after clashes broke out following the killing of a local politician, local media has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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