Karachi Violence

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  Straight Outta Karachi: Pakistan's Surprise Hip Hop Hub

  Haunted by gang violence and poverty for decades, Lyari was once considered one of Pakistan's most dangerous areas, but those grim realities also inspired a generation of artists and spawned a burgeoning hip hop scene.

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  Pakistan Cops Fight Street Battles As Hardliners Surround Islamabad

  Pakistani police used tear gas and water cannon, and fought running battles with stone-throwing activists, as they moved to clear a protest by religious hardliners who have blocked main routes into Islamabad for more than two weeks

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  Shoaib Akhtar Lashes Out at Hatemongers Targeting Sportsmen, Artistes

  Renowned Pakistani qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Karachi, Pakistan, last month. Soon after that another Pakistani actor and television presenter Nadeem Jafri was shot and wounded outside his house during a robbery attempt

• Politician Altaf Hussain's Arrest in London Could Have Serious Repercussions For Pakistan

  A British police arrested one of Pakistan's most well-known and divisive politicians Tuesday on suspicion of money-laundering, sparking fears of violence in his power base of Karachi where businesses closed early and residents rushed home.

• Pakistani political party lawyer shot dead in Karachi

  A senior lawyer belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (N) party was shot dead today, the latest in a spate of violence in the city in the last 24 hours.

• Pakistan helicopters kill nine militants: official

  Pakistani helicopter gunships targeted a militant training facility in the country's northwest on Saturday, killing nine insurgents in the latest violence to disrupt troubled peace negotiations, according to police and security officials.

• Blast aimed at Pakistani police bus kills 11, wounds 33

  An explosion targeting a bus full of Pakistani policemen killed 11 and injured 33 near the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, officials said, in the latest incident of violence while the government and the Taliban are engaged in peace talks.

• Culture festival opens in ancient Pakistani ruins

  Folk dancers and singers wearing traditional multicolored dresses took the stage on Saturday at one of the world's most ancient archaeological sites in southern Pakistan for a festival that organizers say aspires to promote peace in a nation where political violence has left some 40,000 dead in recent years

• Pakistan: 13 killed in Karachi violence

  Violence rocked Pakistan's biggest city today as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.

• Following sectarian clashes, Pakistan on high alert as people call for protest

  Pakistan on Friday boosted security across the country after Sunni Muslim groups called for protests against last week's sectarian violence in the garrison city of Rawalpindi that killed 11 people.

• Crackdown brings apparent lull in Karachi violence

  Rampant violence has terrorised Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city and economic heartbeat, in recent years, but a recent security crackdown seems to have brought a lull in the bloodshed.

• Senior leader Zara Shahid Hussain of Imran Khan's party killed

  Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties.

• Why minorities in Pakistan have no faith in democracy

  In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan's democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country's communities of Shiite Muslims, Christi...

• Pakistan bomb attacks kill one, injure 19: officials

  Twin bomb explosions on Saturday killed one person and wounded 19 others in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, police and hospital officials said, the latest violence ahead of polls next month.

• Pakistan government ends unprecedented full term amid criticism

  Pakistan's elected government completed its full five-year term on Saturday, the first in the country's turbulent history to do so, leaving a legacy of Taliban violence, sectarian unrest, chronic power cuts and a fragile economy.