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...violence was not restricted to supporters of the rival political groups, however. Eyewitness reports from the Malir district of Karachi suggested that MQM militants had rounded up people simply on the grounds that they looked by Pathan or Punjabi, and tried to execute them...
...Chief Justice himself, who remained stranded for eight hours at the VIP lounge of the airport along with many of his lawyers, returned to Islamabad after local authorities refused to allow him to enter Karachi by road...
...government in Karachi, run by the MQM, quickly announced compensation for the dead and injured - $5000 to be paid to the family of each person killed, and $840 for each of the wounded. But it may take a lot more to defuse the crisis...
...blames Iftikhar for the violence. "It only started after his arrival in Karachi. Before that the city was peaceful," thundered Altaf Hussain, the party leader who has been living in self-exile in London for the last 15 years, to his supporters over telephone...
...Saturday violence has made Karachi residents wary of an all-out ethnic backlash. Says Faisal Edhi, whose family foundation run's Pakistan's ambulance service, "Everywhere there is fear. Suddenly people are afraid of each other...