Up to 30 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of violence in Karachi, but police on Thursday said the clashes now focused more on gang turf wars after months of ethnic and political disputes.
Much of the fighting erupted in and around the old district of Lyari. A former PPP lawmaker was among the dead.
An official at the city’s main government hospital put the death toll at 30 over the past 24 hours. Nineteen bodies had been brought in since Wednesday evening.
“Most of the killings have resulted from clashes between criminal gangs operating in Lyari and surrounding areas,” a senior police official said.
“It’s not the kind of fighting that we saw last month, this is more of a gang war.”
But police said turf wars between gangs dealing in drugs and extortion rackets were by no means a new development in Lyari.
“These gangs regularly clash and kill members and supporters of rival groups,” the senior official said.
“Many times, innocent people are also targeted in this rivalry. However, many of those killed end up linked to one gang or the other. Some of these gangs do have political support and backing, but still you cannot term this as a political war as such.”
He acknowledged that “a few” of those killed may have been targeted over their ethnic or political affiliation.
the mqm has been kidnapping baloch boys and killing and dumping their bodies in boris .this has been happening for the last few months but its frequency has increased as the mqm wants to pressurise ppp to get more ministries before they actually come back.
the 5 baloch boys were kidnapped from zainab market ,saddar ,a stronglhod of mqm.mqm has been killing punjabis,pathans and sindhis regularly and now it's the turn of the baloch.
asalamualikum brother.. i dont support any political party .. but after reading your comment i clearly got an idea that yet again the political parties have succeeded in exploiting common people on ethinic grounds. in your comment you mentioned all the ethinicities expcept the urdu speaking community being the victim of terrorism and violence. i think you dont live in karachi! or are u in a straight denial about the genocide of urdu speaking community being carried out here in karachi? thousands of innocent urdu speaking men and women are being killed everyday .. can you imagine the count 168 people killed in just 3 days? still this count is increasing day by day .. what we need to do now is far away from promoting ethnic differences so be careful brother of what you project.
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