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No proof to link Sarkozy to Karachi bomb probe: source (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Reuters - France’s presidential palace said on Friday there was no proof to implicate President Nicolas Sarkozy in an investigation into the circumstances behind a 2002 bomb attack in Pakistan…

Volatile mix of politics and crime plagues Karachi (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Reuters - If you want to measure the level of political strife in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, take the body count at the morgue.

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Suicide car bomb kills at least 15 in Karachi (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

A Pakistan man helps an injured woman from the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. A powerful bomb in the center of Pakistan's largest city leveled a police building, killing at least five people and wounding many others, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)Reuters - At least 15 people were killed and 100 injured in a suspected Taliban suicide car bomb attack on Thursday at a security compound in Pakistan’s largest city Karachi…

Murdered politician buried in Pakistan (AFP)

November 6th, 2010

Supporters of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) gather for the funeral of murdered Pakistani politician Imran Farooq in Karachi on November 6. More than 200,000 mourners packed the streets for the ceremony, amid heightened security in the bustling port city.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - More than 200,000 mourners packed the streets of Karachi on Saturday for the burial of murdered politician Imran Farooq, amid heightened security in the bustling port city.


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Pakistan: 4-day death toll rises to 51 in Karachi (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani man walks past closed shops due to a strike in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. Pakistan's largest city of Karachi reeled Wednesday after gunmen opened fire in a commercial market, killing 11 people in the latest spasm of violence to underscore the poor state of law and order in this U.S.-allied nation. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Parts of Pakistan’s largest city shut down Wednesday after an attack on a scrapyard pushed to 51 the number of people killed in four days — a spasm…

Pakistan’s Karachi city reels after 51 killed (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani boy prays before attending a daily class to learn how to read verses of the Quran, at a mosque in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A government official says gunmen opened fire in a commercial market in Pakistan’s largest city, killing 11 people.


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45 die in revenge attacks in Pakistan’s Karachi (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

A main road of central karachi is deserted as tension mounted following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement in Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gunmen killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Gunmen killed at least 45 people in Pakistan’s largest city after the assassination of a prominent lawmaker set off a cycle of revenge attacks, officials said Tuesday. Dozens…

Officials: 37 gunned down in Pakistan’s Karachi (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

A bus burns having been set alight by protesters in Karachi on August 2, 2010. Outbreaks of violence in Pakistan's largest city killed at least 31 people overnight, following the killing of a Pakistani lawmaker in a drive-by shooting, a senior police official said.(AFP/Asif Hassan)AP - Gunmen went on killing sprees in Pakistan’s largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, killing at least 37 people by Tuesday. Dozens of vehicles and shops were…