ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (AFP): Pakistan Sunday imposed a curfew over parts of Karachi after at least 17 people were killed in a fresh wave of political violence in the southern port city.
Tensions are high between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP), which each represents rival communities in Karachi, a city straddling political fault lines.
"A semi-curfew will be imposed in some areas of Karachi," Interior Minister Rehman Malik said in a brief televised interview with reporters, after meeting top provincial officials in Karachi.
Malik did not explain what he meant by "semi-curfew", but Sindh province home ministry spokesman Sharfuddin Memon told AFP "it is for the authorities to decide for how long they would like a troubled area to remain under curfew."
On Saturday Memon told AFP that at least 17 people had been the victims of targeted killings since Thursday.
Dozens of suspects linked to the killings have been rounded up, with extra police and paramilitary rangers deployed in Karachi's trouble-prone western neighbourhoods.
Pakistan to impose partial curfew in Karachi
FE Team | Published: January 17, 2011 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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